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The graphics will be in the right place, at the group page. Scott --------------------- *SUPREME COURT RULE ON HEALTH CARE TODAY * ** *The Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare should be in the news some time after 10 a.m. EST, long after we've gone to print. The best news we've heard is that the Progressive Caucus says <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/house-progressives-single-payer-health-care_n_1630777.html> if the individual mandate (the part we fear most at /LUV News/) is struck down they will push Medicare for all, the easiest single payer system to describe, since it only requires a change in two words of the current Medicare system, the deletion of "over 65." The 75 members of the Progressive Caucus are all signed onto Medicare for all. It is a shame that President Obama refused to try it when he had overwhelming majorities of Democrats in both houses of Congress and could have easily passed it if Democrats were willing. The individual mandate would lock in people being forced by the government to buy a severely deficient health care product so that "health care" CEOs may continue to draw multimillion dollar salaries and provide transnational investors billions of dollars in profit for denying health care. The "health insurance" industry loves the concept, but we at /LUV News/ have opposed profit from pain and suffering, which we consider to be a barbaric human rights violation as people continue to suffer and die every day in the Land of the Free. It is difficult to see right wingers on the Supreme Court striking it down for any other reason than their hatred of Democrats, since Obamacare came from right wing ideas at the Heritage Foundation, which is very close to many of the justices on the Court. * ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *AMERICA FOR SALE * ** *Senator Bernie Sanders said 93% of the new wealth is now going to the richest 1% (video <http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/27/bernie-sanders-blasts-oligarchic-form-of-u-s-government/>) leaving 7% for us 99% peasants. He says the American government is now for sale. Up to now, apparently, it's only been rented by the wealthy, but with privatization, in which the rich take over a function of government, gut it, downsize it, offshore functions, cut worker pay, increase the tax dollars (now profit) going to it and decrease services the public got from it, they obviously do own that which corporate media identify as "our democracy." * ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** ** ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **I voted for Jimmy Carter. Carter is known in corporate media for being the "human rights" president, although his administration was deep in human rights violations. I remember his starting the Contras in Central America when the Sandinistas were overthrowing the American puppet Samoza family in Nicaragua, a group of terrorists who would go on to commit thousands of acts of rape, thousands of acts of torture, and thousands of murders, all documented by international human rights groups. The Carter State Department had bugs in the room when the murder of Archbishop Ramero was plotted in El Salvador, but didn't warn the holy man, allowing him to be savagely murdered for standing up to the right wing death squads that were trained at Fort Benning, GA at the School of the Americas. And of course, Carter began the terrorist group now known as al Qaeda, in Afghanistan, with its religious fanatics like Osama bin Laden willing then to kill Afghan leftists and Russians who came to their defense, one of many instances in which terrorists created by our government came back to haunt us in time I do admire the Jimmy Carter of recent years, who has often embraced human rights, but he was not a human rights president, and his memories of a USA that supported international law and human rights are formed from deep denial --Jack Balkwill ** **The Redemption Years** **** **Jimmy Carter's Penance? <http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/27/jimmy-carters-penance/> ** ** ** **** **by MISSY BEATTIE** **** **** **In a New York Times (NYT) opinion piece, Jimmy Carter opens with: "The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights." ** **I read these words and focus on the present tense of "is". And I think: When was this country ever anything but an imperialist nation? When was the US anything but an enemy of human rights? And I think about the blood on the hands of Jimmy Carter whose presidency was a devastating illustration of inhumanity. ** **Here's a significant example: It was Jimmy Carter and his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski who were responsible for the rise of the Taliban and arming and training the mujahideen. Brzezinski wrote the ending of Carter's State of the Union Address, delivered on January 23, 1980: ** **** **An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force. ** **Afghanistan, in the late 1970s, was a secular country, providing free education to men and women. And it was allied with the Soviet Union. When the US recruited Islamic fundamentalists to come to Afghanistan for CIA training, the Soviets were drawn into war. ** **The Reagan Administration continued its predecessor's aggression in Afghanistan. ** **Carter's legacy includes not only Osama bin Laden and the majahideen, but, also, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Khmer Rouge, and the Shah of Iran. ** **Later, after leaving office, Carter, assumed the role of "impartial" election monitor. He traveled to Haiti after arranging a meeting with Bertrand Aristide who was running for president of the country and demanded that Aristide withdraw. Aristide's offense: He was supported by an overwhelming majority of Haitians and wasn't a puppet of the US government. Refusing, Aristide went on to win the election but, later, was ousted in a coup supported by the US. Carter's original choice, Marc Bazin, backed by the US, was appointed Prime Minister. Carter defended General Raoul Cedras, a member of the governing junta responsible for the murder of thousands of Haitians who supported Aristides, saying, "I believe he [Cedras] would be a worthy Sunday school teacher." ** **In 2006, Simon and Schuster published Carter's book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, in which the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize states, "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land." ** **I've wondered, often, if this, along with the former president's work with Habitat for Humanity, is his attempt at redemption. ** **Carter closes his NYT piece with this call to action: ** **** **As concerned citizens, we must persuade Washington to reverse course and regain moral leadership according to international human rights norms that we had officially adopted as our own and cherished throughout the years. ** **It's impossible, though, for "concerned citizens" to make our voices heard in a "Washington" that listens and is lulled only to and by Wall Street greed. Certainly, Carter knows this.** **http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/27/jimmy-carters-penance/** **Missy Beattie lives in Baltimore, Maryland. 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