----- Original Message ----- From: Zee Source Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:38 AM Subject: TOTAL capitulation 2 BAILOUT insurance cos THE EVIL EMPIRE wins... again = motre TRILLIONS for wars AND bailing out big companies - forget the little persons affected. Such equals TOTAL capitulation to __BAILOUT BIG__ insurance cos, not "compromise" Health care compromise in the works, sources say "President Obama and top aides have quietly stepped up talks with moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine on a scaled-back health care bill, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. The compromise plan would lack a government-run public health insurance option favored by Obama, but would leave the door open to adding that provision down the road under an idea proposed by Snowe, the sources said. full story http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/02/health.care.compromise/index.html Paul DeMarco: Focus on Justice Makes Health Solution Obvious http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/02-11 Ray McGovern: Afghanistan for Dummies http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/02-10 Obama's Meaningless War Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle http://www.truthout.org/090209R Henry A. Giroux CIA Will Continue to Withhold Key Bush-Era Torture Documents by: Jason Leopold, http://www.truthout.org/090209A Pastor says Jindal should reimburse taxpayers for his helicopter trips to church. http://thinkprogress.org/ http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/02/pastor-jindal-helicopter/ The Lousiana newspaper the Advocate recently reported that Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has been using tax dollars to fund helicopter trips to and from church. Now, a Lousianian pastor who heads a national interfaith group, the Interfaith Alliance, says Jindal should reimburse taxpayers for the trips: ---- the author of Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide: Signing statements that assert a unilateral presidential power to rewrite laws. Indefinite detention without trial. A withdrawal from Iraq roughly in line with that proposed by President Bush - which is to say, an indefinite occupation army. A dramatic increase in spending on the war in Afghanistan without any clear statement of our objective there. Lots of money for bankers. At this rate, I won't be very surprised if the big push for healthcare reform winds up as the Bush prescription drug benefit 2.0: top dollar for healthcare corporations, happy talk for everyone else. http://barackobamaforbeginners.com/ Research: Forensic Metallurgy http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/metallurgy/index.html http://tinyurl.com/n28lt9 Wipeout ##################### This Isn't Reform, It's Robbery By Chris Hedges Between 40 and 62 percent of the American people, including 80 percent of registered Democrats, want universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans. The ability of the corporations to discredit and silence voices that represent at least half of the population is another sad testament to the power of our corporate state. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23356.htm Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal promotions of 4 prescription drugs By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer September 2, 2009 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Pfizer-to-pay-record-23B-apf-1176280604.html?x=0 Holding Wall Street Bankers Accountable Jim Hightower - September 2, 2009 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/02-0 There Are No Words To Describe The Following Part II http://dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ 'Why Does Washington Want Afghanistan?' by Jared Israel, Rick Rozoff and Nico Varkevisser at emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm --- Comments by Jared Israel In the 19th century, Britain invaded China to force the Chinese government to accept imported opium which was poisoning the Chinese population? (After Britain won a glorious victory in the Opium Wars, thus forcing China to enrich British merchants at the expense of the Chinese population's health, the US and France demanded and got from China the same right to import the poisonous stuff. Vast fortunes were built on this gangster trade.) You can read about the Opium Wars at www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/opiwar1.htm A trip down memory lane: Some of America's Past Crimes http://www.uscrusade.com/murder/usa.shtml ======= Dan Kennedy: "Greenwald wrote way back in February that the president had "resoundingly and disgracefully" failed his first civil liberties test by adopting the Bush administration's "state secrets" privilege in dealing with detainees who'd been subjected to extraordinary renditions. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/09/state_secrets/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/feb/12/state-secrets-binyam-mohamed-obama More recently, Greenwald endorsed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's view that Obama had lost the trust of progressives on issues such as terrorism, financial reform and, of course, healthcare. Bob Neer http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/21/obama/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/opinion/21krugman.html?_r=1 __._,_.___ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/shadowgovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
