BuzzFlash.net: published http://www.buzzflash.net www.buzzflash.nethttp://www.buzzflash.nethttp://www.buzzflash.net/img/es/buzzflash_buzz-logoalt1_small.jpg Collaborate publishing site and blog's communication swapping Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:30:02 -0600 http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/meneame/ en <![CDATA[Kucinich: Why is it we have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War?]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046697 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046697 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:30:02 -0600 DandelionSalad Congress kucinich healthcare war http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046697 Short video and transcript. “The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer’s money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive."

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046697 <![CDATA[Federal Judge Rejects Tobacco Companies' Effort to Block Key Provisions of New Law]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046693 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046693 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:50:02 -0600 SNance Legal System/Rule of Law tobacco fda cigarettes health http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046693 A federal judge in Kentucky has rejected a motion by tobacco companies to block key provisions of the new law giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate tobacco products.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046693 <![CDATA[Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Goldman One-Ups Gordon Gekko, Says Jesus Embraced Greed]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046692 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046692 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:10:01 -0600 Sparrows Abuse of Power/Corruption sachs jesus narcisstic corruption wealth http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046692 “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.” via Profit `Not Satanic,’ Barclays Says, After Goldman Invokes Jesus – Bloomberg.com. I didn’t believe this story was true at first — thought it had to be a spoof. But it turns out to be true. The great banks of the world have gone on a p.r. counteroffensive in Europe, and are sending spokescrooks in shiny suits into churches to persuade the masses that Christ would have approved of the latest round of obscene bonuses. Goldman Sachs international adviser Brian Griffiths explains it this way: that Christ’s famous injunction to love others as one would love oneself actually means that one should love oneself as one would love oneself. This seemingly baffling outburst by a Goldman executive in what appears to have been a prepared speech — someone actually wrote this, and thought about it, before saying it out loud — gets even weirder when one tries to figure out what could possibly have motivated this person, and by extension his employer Goldman Sachs, to make such statements in such a place as St. Paul’s Cathedral.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046692 <![CDATA[Weiner withdraws amendment]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046646 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046646 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:30:02 -0600 nasrudin Progressive Issues for-profiteers win http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046646 “I have decided not to offer a single payer alternative to the health reform bill at this time. Given how fluid the negotiations are on the final push to get comprehensive health care reform that covers millions of Americans and contains costs through a public option, I became concerned that my amendment might undermine that important goal.”

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046646 <![CDATA[Gordon Brown puts up a fight as Afghanistan war support falls]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046628 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046628 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:25:01 -0600 Fiore The World uk afghanistan gordon brown http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046628 Gordon Brown will today make clear he will not be "deterred, dissuaded or diverted" from Britain's mission in Afghanistan, despite a new poll showing nearly three-quarters of people believe UK troops should be withdrawn within 12 months. He will use a keynote speech to stress that "we cannot, must not and will not walk away," adding that international efforts "will succeed or fail together".

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046628 <![CDATA[Creationist B.S. Exposed]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046681 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046681 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:40:01 -0600 vaquero Religion dawkins creationism evolution bigots http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046681 Richard Dawkins was recently issued a challenge --disprove creation in one sentence. I can do that myself. Here it is: If we can see Andromeda --some 2.5 MILLION years distant from earth --then creationism is false!

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046681 <![CDATA[Gay marriage loses in Maine: the campaign finance scorecard]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046677 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046677 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:40:01 -0600 srpr Elections gay marriage maine http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046677 Press attention, money, and political capital in Maine focused on a wedge issue — gay marriage. But proponents and opponents alike used plenty of money from outside the state to influence the vote.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046677 <![CDATA[Think Again: This Fish Rots from the Head Down]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046657 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046657 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:01 -0600 SNance Media media george will climate change http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046657 Will was repudiated by his own newspaper’s newsroom, whose reporters, Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan, noted satellite data showing that the average multiyear wintertime sea ice cover in the Arctic in 2005 had declined, which “contradicts data cited in widely circulated reports by Washington Post columnist George F. Will that sea ice in the Arctic has not significantly declined since 1979.” So too did Andrew Freeman, at the Post’s weather blog ...

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046657 <![CDATA[Republic of Fools]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046671 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046671 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:30:01 -0600 helptheimmoral Abuse of Power/Corruption us government http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046671 The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire.Republicans and Democrats saw opportunities to create new sources of campaign contributions by privatizing as many military functions as possible. There are now a large number of private companies that have never made a dollar in the market, feeding instead at the public trough that drains taxpayers of dollars while loading Americans with debt service obligations.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046671 <![CDATA[Reviews Raise Doubt on Training of Afghan Forces]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046630 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046630 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:40:01 -0600 Fiore Military afghanistan training afghan forces http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046630 A series of internal government reviews have presented the Obama administration with a dire portrait of Afghanistan’s military and police force, bringing into serious question an ambitious goal at the heart of the evolving American war strategy — to speed up their training and send many more Afghans to the fight.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046630 <![CDATA[Massachusetts Town Says Yes to Guantánamo Detainees]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046480 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046480 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:55:02 -0600 helptheimmoral Miscellaneous guantánamo http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046480 The move came Wednesday night in Amherst, Mass., on a voice vote of town meeting members. The town is also now officially on record as urging Congress to lift its ban on moving cleared detainees to the US – and has gone so far as to identify two detainees it would like to welcome to Amherst.Amherst’s resolution to take in cleared detainees – of which there are at least 60 out of the 215 held in the US camp for terrorism suspects – is a first for a US municipality, says Nancy Talanian, director of No More Guantánamos, a citizen organization founded this year to support President Obama’s plan to close the Guantánamo facility in Cuba.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046480 <![CDATA[WHY REPUBLICANS ARE EITHER LYING OR DUMB]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046602 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046602 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:45:01 -0600 MDR Right Wing republicans health care elections http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046602 Between John Boehner waving the constitution at a tea party rally against health care and believing he was quoting from it when he was quoting the Declaration of Independence, or actor John Ratzenberger calling healthcare reform the product of "Woodstock Democrats whose philosophy comes from overseas", Republicans are finally exposing themselves to one truth that is self-evident - they are either lying or dumb.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046602 <![CDATA[When is War Justified? Afghanistan By Jo Ellen Green Kaiser and Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Greg Palast]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046477 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046477 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:45:01 -0600 Sparrows Abuse of Power/Corruption afghan war lied to war justified war? http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046477 A month ago, I sent an email to over fifty leaders and thinkers in the Jewish and progressive world, asking them what they thought about the conflict in Afghanistan. I wrote: I keep asking myself an old question that seems ever more relevant today in the context of Afghanistan: When is war justified?---I invited a response, and got two, one from a leading activist rabbi, Arthur Waskow, and one from a leading radical journalist, Greg Palast. ZEEK is reprinting them with the hope of starting a richer conversation.---Rabbi Arthur Waskow Who can think up the most cockamamie plans for Afghanistan?---Here are two ideas way outside the box, outside the Beltway: Fire all US generals and diplomats in Afghanistan. Send five women U.S. Senators to negotiate with Afghan women and all male Afghan factional leaders (including the varied Taliban factions) with two promises: (1) Any governance agreement unanimously agreed-to will be backed up by billions in U.S. economic aid, delivered as dollar bills in suitcases, if necessary; (2) If no such agreement is reached, all U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ends at once. Same if a unanimous agreement breaks down.---

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046477 <![CDATA[UN sanctions Goldstone report on Gaza war - Press TV]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046663 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046663 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:45:02 -0600 RicKelis Legal System/Rule of Law israel rw govt war-humanity crimes http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046663 The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a report, which accuses Israel of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity during the weeks-long onslaught on the Gaza Strip. 114 states endorsed a resolution supporting the report by a Human Rights Council panel led by the South African judge Richard Goldstone in Thursday's UN vote while only 18 states including the US objected to the report's adoption. Forty-four countries also abstained including France, Britain and Russia. The assembly's resolution demands that both the Israelis and the Palestinians carry out investigations within three months. It also pushes for Security Council attention.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046663 <![CDATA[Dick Cheney Goes For The Jugular]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046440 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046440 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:20:01 -0600 OrpRam Busheviks greed-prd cptl-fscsm-mltrsm-fnncl fraud-power-empr http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046440 Like a horror movie monster, the former vice-president keeps coming back to sink his teeth into Obama's foreign policy.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046440 <![CDATA[General Assembly Backs Findings of UN Gaza Report (Goldstone report)]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046632 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046632 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:40:01 -0600 Fiore The World un gaza goldstone report http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046632 The General Assembly today endorsed the report of the United Nations investigation which found that both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants were guilty of serious human rights violations during the conflict in the Gaza Strip at the start of the year. After two days of debate in the Assembly, at UN Headquarters in New York, 114 Member States voted in favour of a resolution endorsing the report’s findings and its recommendations for further action. Eighteen States voted against the resolution and another 44 countries abstained.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046632 <![CDATA[CIT Bankruptcy: Taxpayers Stiffed on Company's Bailout Billions While Execs Reap Bonuses]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046468 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046468 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:40:01 -0600 Sparrows Abuse of Power/Corruption cti bailout blns taxpayers problem peeks http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046468 If people were pissed off about AIG's temporary decline and permanent bonuses, CIT's bankruptcy ought to enrage them. The giant lender to businesses is heading for a quick in-and-out in bankruptcy court, and when it emerges, taxpayers will be the ones who have gotten the ol' in-out: CIT won't have to repay its $2.33 billion TARP bailout. CIT's been in deep trouble for way more than a year. Meanwhile, some of its execs have reaped special bonuses. Its H.R. director, Jim Duffy, has received a $450,000 cash bonus for what the company called his "exceptional performance." What did he do? "Mr. Duffy's achievements in 2008 include the design and implementation of a process to reduce our total headcount by 22% ... along with the successful deployment of talent and development programs targeted at retaining CIT's key talent," according to CIT's proxy filing last April. That message to taxpayers was approved by CEO Jeff Peek. That was the same month that Peek's wife, Liz Peek (a former journalist), wrote an anonymous, weepy tell-all for Portfolio about the sad plight of TARP wives. And that was the same month that Portfolio itself went out of business.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046468 <![CDATA[Did you know New Yorkers have the smallest carbon footprint in America?]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046620 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046620 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:01 -0600 MConnery Environment environment public policy energy http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046620 New York City may be the dirtiest city in the country (per square foot), but New York City residents have the lowest carbon footprint in the nation on a per capita basis. David Owen, author of Green Metropolis, explains why.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046620 <![CDATA[Jon Stewart Becomes Glenn Beck and NAILS IT!]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046608 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046608 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:01 -0600 rackjite Video republican elections http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046608 Not only does Stewart nail the crazy politics, the convoluted logic, the Rube Goldberg chalkboard, the tears, the ticks and the goofy mannerisms, but it is so on the mark that we find ourselves concluding that Howard Beale seems stable compared to Glenn Beck. I am sure the writers and actors over at SNL are kicking themselves in the ass for missing this one.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046608 <![CDATA[How the Iraq War Destroyed the US Economy]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046607 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046607 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:20:01 -0600 vaquero Military war iraq gop lies gdp deficit jobs http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046607 Wars reduce the GDP, destroy jobs, reduce productively, and increase the trade deficit! If wars are 'bad' for the economy, then how are they sold so easily? The quick response: they are sold with focus group tested bullshit!

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046607 <![CDATA[Drug War Madness:]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046639 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046639 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:35:01 -0600 colinjames Progressive Issues right wing tool http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046639 The commission is to make sweeping recommendations for reform, and is tasked in particular with developing proposals to “restructure our approach to drug policy.”.........Enter unreconstructed drug warrior Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has released the text of an amendment that would ensure the commission not reach any conclusions that threaten 40 years of failure. The commission would be prohibited, thanks to Grassley, from examining any “policies that favor decriminalization of violations of the Controlled Substances Act or the legalization of any controlled substances.”

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046639 <![CDATA[Greg Palast: Taliban = 9/11?]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046430 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046430 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:50:01 -0600 Mike5000 The World media msm greg palast taliban 9/11 wmd http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046430 "Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. Your eyelids are getting heavy. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD."

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046430 <![CDATA[The Soldiers From Standard Oil: ROTC, Harvard and American Foreign Policy: By Brian Gallagher]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046453 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046453 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:01 -0600 OrpRam Military greed-prd cptl-fscsm-mltrsm-edu-fraud-rsrc wrs-emp http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046453 In a glowing and laudatory report on college students who join the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at nearby schools while enrolled at prestigious universities from whence ROTC was banned in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the New York Times has eased the way for colleges such as Harvard to ditch their ROTC ban and become in practice, not just in theory, fully supportive of the US government's militarized foreign policy. --- Venerating Corporate America as the Mediatrix of all Political Graces is the official religion of US foreign policy. Only megalomaniacal narcissism explains the psychopathology of the ruling class who not only send armies abroad to acquire other peoples' natural wealth, but also believe this to be an act of charity that only they can provide. Proposing that a people own their own resources is an intolerable effrontery, as the case of Mohammed Mossedegh proves. Prime Minister of Iran until 1953, Mossedegh attempted to nationalize the Iranian oil industry which had been under the control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, now known as British Petroleum (BP), a transgression for which he was overthrown during the successful execution of Operation Ajax, the CIA's orchestrated coup. The "freedom" for which American armies fight is the freedom to work for Corporate America and its Washington tools. Additionally, this is a job that you can't quit without facing serious punishments…. -- The JFK School of Government and Harvard Business School are, respectively, the American empire's Schools of War and Capitalism. It's sad but fitting that ROTC might officially return to campus since the university actively supports the imperial project outlined by the military's own academics. It's also sad to see some of the most privileged and capable young people in America sign up for the undertaking. Can we honestly tell ourselves that people at a place with the intellectual reputation of Harvard's have been fooled into thinking that "serving one's country" meant something else? Can people at a place like Harvard claim ignorance about America's wars being an enterprise for corporate profits? Most of the world's peoples belong to the have-nots and we, the haves, make unending war on them to keep it that way. - Didn't you know that, soldier? --

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046453 <![CDATA[Half Of US Kids Depend On Food Stamps During Childhood: Study]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046432 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046432 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:20:01 -0600 OrpRam Progressive Issues greed-prdtr dbtsm-fscsm-fnncl fraud-ineqlty-hunger http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046432 Nearly half of all US children, including an overwhelming majority of black children, will eat meals at some point during their childhood paid for by food stamps, an indicator of poverty, a study showed Monday. "If you get food stamps, you are by definition in poverty and your household doesn't have many assets," said Mark Rank, a co-author of the study with Thomas Hirschl of Cornell University. -- "The fact that half of American children at some time during their childhood find themselves in this position really ought to be a wake-up call to America," he told AFP. - The study found that 49.2 percent of all American children will at some point live in a home that receives food stamps. - Among black children and children living in single-parent households, the percentage is much higher: around 90 percent live in homes that receive food stamps at one stage or another. - And nearly all black children in single parent homes where the head of household has less than a high school education live in financial and food insecurity during part of their childhood, the study says. -- The study, which was published Monday in the American Medical Association's Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, is based on an analysis of a 32-year study of some 4,800 US households. --- It concluded that American children face the highest levels of poverty and social deprivation of any children growing up in Western developed nations, and they have the flimsiest social safety net to fall back on.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046432 <![CDATA[Abortion and the Capps Amendment: Why We Must Stop Negotiating With Terrorists on Healthcare Reform]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046403 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046403 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:50:02 -0600 meg Health and Wellness abortion choice health care capps http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046403 Yes, it is still wrong to trade women's reproductive rights so that the rest of the population can have decent healthcare. The only new item we've learned is that not only is it wrong, but it doesn't work. What is far worse than being seen as a bargaining chip worth expending is to be seen as a bargaining chip to be given away for free. Now that the bargaining chip of women's reproductive rights is in the hands of the pro-life community, they plan to use healthcare reform to take away the rights we still have. So much for negotiating with the choice terrorists.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046403 <![CDATA[America the Betrayed: by Richard C. Cook]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046438 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046438 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:10:02 -0600 OrpRam Progressive Issues greed-prd dbtsm-fscsm-fnncl fraud-ineqlty solutns http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046438 Is there any practical plan on the part of either political party or organized movement to restore America to what it once was–a place where ordinary people could live, work, learn, and flourish? The answer is a resounding “No.” Not a chance. And “Change You Can Believe In” hasn’t changed a thing. All it has done has been to produce another financial bubble, this time using huge amounts of public debt through the sale of U.S. Treasury bonds. Business is not growing and jobs are not coming back. The only thing that has gone up has been the meeting of military recruitment quotas. -- This latest bubble will fail too, because money created through lending to float the prices of assets is not wealth. - Rather wealth consists of goods and services produced by labor applied to natural resources. Those who provide the labor must be recompensed fairly. --- So what is to be done? - The answer is that nothing can or will be done, if by that you mean whether a political savior is going to come along to rescue our nation and its people from destruction. -- Is there any practical plan on the part of either political party or organized movement to restore America to what it once was–a place where ordinary people could live, work, learn, and flourish? The answer is a resounding “No.” Not a chance. And “Change You Can Believe In” hasn’t changed a thing. All it has done has been to produce another financial bubble, this time using huge amounts of public debt through the sale of U.S. Treasury bonds. Business is not growing and jobs are not coming back. The only thing that has gone up has been the meeting of military recruitment quotas. This latest bubble will fail too, because money created through lending to float the prices of assets is not wealth. Rather wealth consists of goods and services produced by labor applied to natural resources. Those who provide the labor must be recompensed fairly. So what is to be done? The answer is that nothing can or will be done, if by that you mean whether a political savior is going to come along to rescue our nation and its people from destruction. In fact, what they are planning is to continue to throttle and enslave us with a predatory financial establishment and a military policy that is preparing the groundwork for World War III. The war will be fought with American troops against Russia and China, after which China will take over as the world’s policeman while this country disappears from the face of the earth. It’s the ultimate plan of the New World Order, the ones American politicians, financiers, military leaders, and academics bow down to. It is time for each and every individual who values his or her own life along with the creative potential of the human spirit to begin to work with others to create a new nation and world. The government isn’t going to do it for us. Please believe me. This is not a system that can be reformed. It is a system that must be replaced. And it must be replaced by the ordinary working men and women who have been crushed, used, and abused during the past ugly half-century. --- Americans, get to work. Call your friends and family together today and begin to figure out what to do. Setting up local currency systems, as many communities are now doing, is a good place to start. Stop shopping and supporting Wall Street.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046438 <![CDATA[Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military by Dahr Jamail]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046491 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046491 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:10:02 -0600 Sparrows Military army major hasan shooter battle fatigue? http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046491 At approximately 1:30 p.m. CST today, a soldier went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding at least 31 others, according to base commander Lieutenant-General Bob Cone. Truthout spoke with an Army Specialist who is an active-duty Iraq war veteran currently stationed at the base. The soldier spoke on condition of anonymity since the base is now on “lockdown,” and all “non-authorized” military personnel on the base have been ordered not to speak to the press. “A soldier entered the ‘Soldier Readiness Center (SRC)’ with two handguns and opened fire,” the soldier, who is currently getting treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) explained. “That facility is where you go just before you deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.” The soldier named the gunman as Major Malik Nadal Hasan, and said he was about 40 years old. According to the soldier, Hasan was a member of the base’s Medical Evaluation Board, and worked there as a counselor.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046491 <![CDATA[The Fire Sale of America: Have We Got a Deal For You: Let's Privatize Government! By Pam Martens]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046436 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046436 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:10:02 -0600 OrpRam Right Wing greed-prd dbtsm-cptlsm-fscsm-rt wng prvtztn fraud http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046436 At a time when the corporate leaders of America have demonstrated an incurable proclivity to blaze a trail of scorched earth and looting across the banking, trading, housing, and mortgage industries, the public is now catching the whiff of a new smoldering stench just over the horizon. - If corporate America has its way, everything from our parking meters, zoos, airports, toll roads and drinking water will be privatized in the biggest fire sale in the history of the industrialized world. In other words, let’s send a powerful message to our children that the reward for corporate greed, incompetence and criminal behavior is to hand over what’s left of the country’s assets. - The fire sale is being stoked by unprecedented state and local revenue shortfalls. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), “the worst recession since the 1930s has caused the steepest decline in state tax receipts on record…48 states have addressed or still face such shortfalls in their budgets for fiscal year 2010, totaling $178 billion…the largest gaps on record…Fiscal year 2011 gaps – both those still open and those already addressed — total $80 billion or 14 percent of budgets for the 35 states that have estimated the size of these gaps. These totals are likely to grow as revenues continue to deteriorate, and may well exceed $180 billion…These numbers suggest that when all is said and done, states will have dealt with a total budget shortfall of at least $350 billion for 2010 and 2011.” Ironically, $350 billion is exactly half the amount the Federal government doled out to the Wall Street gang that proceeded to pay million dollar bonuses, fly staff to lush resorts, or slap logos on sports stadiums. --- Here’s a rundown of what’s up for corporate grabs around the country and its UGLY!!!!!:

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046436 <![CDATA[Kucinich Raises Questions about Stand Alone Vote on National Single Payer + No Bill is Better Than a Bad Bill]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046470 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046470 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:50:01 -0600 DandelionSalad Congress kucinich healthcare single payer http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046470 “Many years ago, people in states across America planted the seeds of single payer health care. Those seeds have sprouted and borne fruit where powerful state citizens’ movements exist to create not-for-profit health care. This led to passage of an amendment to the Health Care bill which protected the rights of states to pursue single payer. Unfortunately that amendment was taken out of the bill, and we must try to get it into the conference report."

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1046470 <![CDATA[Tea-Baggers Are Covered and Care Less About Anyone Else]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046466 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046466 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:35:01 -0600 RDemocrat Right Wing protest washington d.c http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1046466 Ah, the teabag movement has once again marshalled it's forces in Washington D.C. Ultra-Conservatives with selective memories and misplaced outrage are once again having public hissy-fits. Not that I do not think that is their right, I believe it is perfectly within their rights to gather in Washington and protest. It is certainly more polite than yelling in the ears of your neighbors and talking over them. And like those townhalls, it gives great perspective at where these folks are coming from and makes me so very glad to be on the other side.

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