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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Latest word from the White House is that the President still supports a public option but is also standing by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's remark last weekend that a public insurance plan is 'not the essential element' of health-care reform. So where, exactly, is the White House on the public option? Just about where it is on the question of whether it agreed with Big Pharma to bar Medicare from using its bargaining clout to get lower drug prices -- or didn't. In other words, we don't know."

http://www.truthout.org/081909A?n



Stop Corporate Terrorism

The Progressive Populist: "For sheer, unmitigated gall, it's hard to beat the conservatives who are mounting a last-ditch campaign to derail meaningful health care reform. First, the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies bribed Congress members with millions of dollars in campaign contributions to keep expansion of Medicare - the most efficient way to provide affordable health coverage to every American - 'off the table.'"

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China and Russia trimmed their holdings: The Treasury is auctioning record amounts of debt to cover what it estimates will be a $1.85 trillion budget deficit this year. If overseas buyers don't continue purchasing U.S. debt, some economists worry that would mean falling demand at Treasury debt auctions and rising interest rates.

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Jobless spike compounds foreclosure crisis

Economists estimate 1.8 million borrowers will lose their homes this year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32455445/ns/business-washington_post/



Is There Any Point in Fighting to Stave off Industrial Apocalypse?

The collapse of civilisation will bring us a saner world, says Paul Kingsnorth. No, counters George Monbiot - we can't let billions perish.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/17/environment-climate-change


From Information Clearing House



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In Justice Scalia's world, the law has no problem with sending an innocent man to die. One wonders why we even bother to have a Constitution.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/17/scalia-actual-innocence/


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By John Pilger

Pilger examines Obama's position as president of the US and puts it into perspective.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23301.htm



Anatomy of American Ignorance

By Bill Noxid

The astonishing amount of rage demonstrated during the course of this fallacious healthcare debate has exposed a great many unfortunate realities about the United States. This country's inherent ability to avoid the truth about its own origins and behaviors has become increasingly apparent during the first six months of this presidency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23289.htm



This Is Reform?

By Bob Herbert

It's never a contest when the interests of big business are pitted against the public interest. So if we manage to get health care "reform" this time around it will be the kind of reform that benefits the very people who have given us a failed system, and thus made reform so necessary.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23299.htm



The Rich Must Be Reined In

By Vincent Cable

The public are offended by rewards for failure, and by tax-dodging. We have too much of both.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23298.htm



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Acclimatizing the public to the idea of sulfur particle spraying while it is already in progress

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

A new article in TIME magazine suggests that geo-engineering the planet may be the only way forward to prevent the climate "collapsing".

http://www.infowars.net/articles/august2009/180809TIME.htm



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The American Police State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed165.html

The Crime of Big Government
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AlterNet
by Scott Thill

08/17/09

Thanks to the taser’s wildfire deployment, classification as non-lethal weaponry and pop-cultural appeal in films, television, comics and even cartoons, cops have nearly lost their minds using it on everyone from children, the elderly, and pregnant mothers to the mentally unstable and physically disabled. Or have their lost their spines? After all, the police are public servants, and were even once referred to as peace officers, charged with resolving disputes, defusing danger and, when necessary, applying lethal force to keep the public safe. But lately, and thanks partially to the taser’s alleged safety, they have been leaving peace behind in favor of brutalizing innocent civilians with accelerating lunacy...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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