Thursday items

Written by: Gerry Lykins on Jul 2, 2009 8:06 AM EDT

Thursday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ July 2nd, 2009

 

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Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

By Joe Conason —

The senators who now claim we cannot afford to spend a trillion dollars to make long overdue changes in health care know exactly what that amount can buy. They know because they have spent it, year after year, on military misadventures and subsidies to big banks and corporations.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090701_suddenly_a_trillion_dollars_is_too_expensive/

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With ‘20,000 people every year dying because they did not get healthcare on time’

Americans  are spending almost twice as much per person as any other industrial country on healthcare but not getting nearly as much for it…

The ‘industry’ lobby is spending a million a day to prevent’ the public option’reform, in spite of 72% of Americans who want it…!

‘every Democrat should vote against the GOP filibuster’ says

Bernie Sanders on COUNTDOWN…

Addressesses stopping the filibuster

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31699315

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Forwarding from VermontsDean…

Bernie Sanders Demands Democrats Commit To Stopping Health Care Filibuster

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141057/bernie_sanders_demands_democrats_commit_to_stopping_health_care_filibuster

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Who Sits at the Health-Reform Table?
While single-payer advocates are excluded, pricy medical industry execs are welcome in the health-care debate, Tom Klammer notes

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/070109b.html

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Chamber of Commerce Launches $100 Million Campaign to Protect Wall Street's Power at Our Expense

By Zach Carter, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The CoC is the world's most powerful lobbying machine and it's working to make sure our money gets funneled to corporate execs.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/141031/chamber_of_commerce_launches_%24100_million_campaign_to_protect_wall_street%27s_power_at_our_expense/

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Abstract Quality Journalism for War

by Norman Solomon

The New York Times used three square inches of newsprint on Tuesday to dispatch two U.S. Army soldiers under the headline "Names of the Dead." Their names -- Peter K. Cross and Steven T. Drees -- were listed along with hometowns, ranks and ages. Cross was 20 years old. Drees was 19.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/01-1

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

From the Cincinnati Enquirer today

Politics & Government

No mayor primary? Save $400K

County: No to Anderson mine

Ohio Lottery switch causes glitches

State to audit city, county groups

Strickland signs temporary budget

Wingo retiring, Lunnemann returns

Brown, Driehaus tout health reform

Council tweets show teeth

Bortz: Smitherman 'running city'

Court rules Franken Senate race winner

Ohio News

Ohio auto dealer Ganley enters US Senate race

Ohio high court takes tax case

Ohio House approves second 7-day budget

Guilty pleas in Cleveland corruption probe

Ohio Lottery operator switch has some glitches

Ohio base breaks ground for surveillance project

Ohio Supreme Court to hear satellite TV tax appeal

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS

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there’s an article waiting for your ‘rapid response’ today…

take your pick…lend a progressive voice to the debate..

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

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New Website: The Cincinnati Man

If you are a man or want to know what these men are writing about, then The Cincinnati Man may be a website worth checking out. It comes from a group of mostly Northern Kentuckians, so we are very glad they think in the broader "Cincinnati" area vision. It also gives a counter weight to the mostly female bloggers around town, who lend the most cultural critique of the City and its happenings.

????~ we shall see…

http://cincinnati.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-website-cincinnati-man.html

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So, what goes on in Indiana?

Arrest Warrant Issued For Oxley, IDP and Blue Indiana Silent

http://johpadgett.com/monticello/

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The Rural Democrat

http://theruraldemocrat.typepad.com/

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Here speaks a true conservative…(even though he is a libertarian, really),

It sheds light on how not conservative most GOPers are today

RON PAUL: 'Fight them over there vs. over here' a false choice

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/01/fight-them-over-there-vs-over-here-presents-a-fals/?feat=home_columns

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The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/30/accountability/index.html

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Weapons: Our #1 Export?
By Frida Berrigan
Absent an explicit shift away from Bush administration policies, U.S. weapons sales are likely to continue to fuel conflict and abet human rights abuses. During the two Bush terms, the majority of U.S. arms sales to the developing world went to countries that our own State Department defined as undemocratic regimes and/or major human rights abusers. And over two-thirds of the world's active conflicts involved weapons that had been supplied by the United States. Continue

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22961.htm

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"The Secret History of the American Empire"
Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption
Audio & Transcript - Interview with John Perkins
Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S. government and corporations -- what he calls the “corporatocracy.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17829.htm

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from and about ‘over there’

 

 

 

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U.S. Marines Try to Retake Afghan Valley From Taliban

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?_r=1&hp

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Iraq: A Bitter Strategic Failure
Iraqi celebrations over the pullback of U.S. forces marks what looks like an end game to a strategic failure, says Robert Parry.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/070109.html

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How Can We Have Sovereignty When We Don't Have Electricity or Water to Bathe? Iraqi Reporter on US Troop Pullback

In Iraq, a deadly car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk has killed up to forty people and injured another 100. Tuesday’s bombing came hours after US troops withdrew from major Iraqi towns and cities, marring celebrations on a day that is now officially declared as “National Sovereignty Day,” a public holiday. We go to Iraq to speak with Sahar Issa, an Iraqi reporter working with the Baghdad Bureau of McClatchy Newspapers. We also speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill about his article, “Iraq’s ‘National Sovereignty Day’ is US-Style Hallmark Hype.” [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/1/how_can_we_have_sovereignty_when

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Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big Oil

http://www.juancole.com/

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Former President Khatami Denounces Iran Election, Arrests

http://www.truthout.org/070109R

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Made for Revolution

Iran and Us

By VIJAY PRASHAD

For Leften Stavrianos, 1913-2004.

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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Israel 'wantonly destroyed Gaza'

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/20097234237545473.html

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Breaking the Siege of Gaza: Governments Refuse While Citizens Act

by Ann Wright

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/01-0

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Behind the Honduran Coup

Why Zelaya's Actions Were Legal

By ALBERTO VALLENTE THORENSEN

http://www.counterpunch.org/thorensen07012009.html

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Military Using "Brutal" Force Against Anti-Coup Protests in Honduras

The ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is expected to meet with US diplomats in Washington today before attempting to return to Honduras Thursday, five days after being deposed by a military coup. Meanwhile, the streets in Honduras remain tense, and the crackdown on the media has reportedly not been lifted. We go to Honduras to speak with human rights activist, Dr. Juan Almendares. [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/1/military_using_brutal_force_against_anti

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Generals Who Led Honduras Military Coup Trained at the School of the Americas

Romeo Vasquez, a general who led the military coup in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, received training at the US School of the Americas. The SOA has trained more than 60,000 soldiers, many of whom have returned home and committed human rights abuses, torture, extrajudicial execution and massacres. According to School of the Americas Watch, Vasquez attended the SOA in 1976 and 1984. The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, also studied there in 1996. We speak with Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch. [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/1/generals_who_led_honduras_military_coup

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What's Behind the Honduras Coup? Tracing Zelaya's Trajectory

We take a look at ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya with journalist Nikolas Kozloff, author of Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left. Despite initial conservative leanings, Zelaya took on powerful vested interests in Honduras. " [Zelaya] was at odds politically with the Honduran elite for the past few years and had become one of Washington’s fiercest critics in the region," writes Kozloff. “Even if the Obama Administration did not play an underhanded role in this affair, the Honduran coup highlights growing geo-political tensions in the region.” [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/1/whats_behind_the_honduras_coup_tracing

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US suspends military activities with Honduras

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/01/us-suspends-military-activities-with-honduras/

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While the U.S. Dilly Dallies on Honduras, We Continue to Support a Right-Wing Thug in Colombia

Liliana Segura, AlterNet

World: Alvaro Uribe could be re-elected through just the type of referendum the ousted Manuel Zelaya has been accused of trying to carry out.

http://www.alternet.org/world/141046/while_the_u.s._dilly_dallies_on_honduras%2C_we_continue_to_support_a_right-wing_thug_in_colombia/

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Peace and Solidarity

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain, humorist and author (1835 - 1910)

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

 

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