In this episode we celebrate Bank of America’s commitment to ending Mountain Top Removal Funding, Talk about the reality campaign against clean coal, and get an update from the field.
Duration : 0:4:13
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/08/MOMENTUM_Healthcare_Briefing
Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, gives a detailed overview of the hotly debated public option.
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As President Obama pushes to enact an alternative plan, organizers and policy makers must work the devil out of the details. Join Momentum for a candid, up-to-the-minute conversation on where the debate stands, what is missing and how to best provide affordable healthcare access for all Americans. – Momentum Conference
Anthony Wright is Executive Director for Health Access California, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition which has been a leader in both state and national efforts to fight health care budget cuts, to win consumer protections, and to advance comprehensive health reform and coverage expansions. Wright led fights to pass a first-in-the-nation law to set standards for timely access to care, and a first-in-the-nation law against hospital overcharging of the uninsured, and to win a prescription drug discount program despite an $80 million industry campaign against it.
A consumer advocate and community organizer. Wright has been widely quoted in local and national media on a range of issues. He has also worked for New Jersey Citizen Action, the Center for Media Education, The Nation magazine, and in Vice President Gore’s office in the White House.
Duration : 0:6:15
Michael McBane of the Canadian Health Coalition on the need for Canadian Pharmacare, part of the Campaign for a National Drug Plan, at a public hearing sponsored by BC FORUM – the B.C. Federation of Retired Union Members – December 10, 2007, at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
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Presenter: Maryanne Petranek – Vice Chair, Cuyahoga County for Liberty
On Feb. 6, 2010, like-minded pro-Liberty groups gathered at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, OH for a meet-and-greet event to start building a coalition to preserve liberty at the local, state and national levels. The event was sponsored by the Cuyahoga County for Liberty and the Libertarian Party of Cuyahoga County.
Keynote Speakers
• Jason Gloyd
Chairman C.O.A.S.T., Cincinnati, OH
Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending & Taxes
• William Peirce, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus CWRU & former Chair of the Economics Department
Libertarian Party Gubernatorial Candidate in 2006
• Walker Todd, J.D., Ph.D.
Research Fellow, American Institute for Economic Research
Former Adj. Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Former Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland & New York
Local Groups Presenting
• Cuyahoga County for Liberty, Libertarian Party of Cuyahoga County, Cleveland Tea Party Patriots, Young Americans for Liberty CWRU, Westlake-912, Oath Keepers, We the People, Ohio Freedom Alliance, John Birch Society, Fully Informed Jury Association, American Open Currency Standard
Duration : 0:4:17
The main headlines on Al Jazeera English, featuring the latest news and reports from around the world.
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How is the US, which has spent three years proving that it cannot successfully occupy Iraq, a small country of only 25 million people, going to control India, China, Russia, Europe, Africa and South America?
It’s not going to happen.
What it does mean is that the US government in its hubris and delusion is going to continue starting wars and attacking other countries until a coalition of greater forces smashes us. Even among our European allies we are already perceived as the greatest threat to world peace and stability.
Take Me Home
By Geoff Rutledge
I was sent to this far away land, half a boy half a man.
4 Minutes Video:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13944.htm
Ahh wait a mintue The U.S. is never going to control the world I hate to burst your bubble. This view is wrong and is why America can not beat Iraq the war was stupid it should have never happened. This is how I feel Yes America is powerful it does not make it right to terroize other countries because you have more power. This country was built on freedom so I think the govt. should rethink thier actions before it costs the citizens thier rigfht to abode.
I know that I have asked this already, I am posting it again to get more replies from more people.
Some background first, in my city people have been fired or denied access to the restroom because they were glbt. A local advocacy group proposed a city ordinance be adopted by the council to make it illegal for businesses to evict glbt’s from their residence, deny them access to the gender appropriate lavatory, or to fire an employee in a secular position because they are glbt. A religious coalition was then formed to oppose this ordinance. That started these forums.
This is the second of three forums discussing whether a committee on diversity should approve a city ordinance to prevent employers and land lords from firing people because they were glbt, evicting them and/or throwing them out of the restroom for the same reason. What I need from y’all is studies that disprove a nurture cause for homosexuality, studies that prove a biological cause, biblical verses that would support my arguments that religion is not a relevant issue, and any other relevant information or argument.
This is what I have so far:
1. Even, for the sake of argument, if homosexuality is a choice, why should we be barred from making that choice? We are allowed to get tattoos and piercings.
2. I was asked where does it stop. My answer is that freedom will stop when the minorities rights are no longer violated. This opens up a whole bunch of issues so I will clarify that, I mean when the majority is no longer in control of whether a person can choose a particular lifestyle; within reason of course, pedophiles cannot be allowed to molest children. There is clear harm in that, emotional, physical, and mental.
3. Following that we must define what a right is. Now I am not a scholar on what a right is vs a privilege vs an ability, but I would define a right as an endowed ability or protection granted by a higher power; whatever that may be. An example, people have the right to modify their bodies as they see fit. Tattoos, piercings, surgery. Essentially a right to choose whatever they want provided that choice does not damage others to the point that the choice is exceedingly detrimental to others.
4. The argument was made that passing this ordinance would force my beliefs on others who oppose this ordinance. My answer is simple, forcing you to do anything would involve the use of force to get the other party to commit an act against their will. In this case, I am not forcing them to hire glbt people. I am instead, preventing them from infringing upon my right to make a choice; what to do (career wise), who to love, or where to live.
5. It was said that repeating that the causes are biological does not make it true without proof. My answer: the same is true of a nurture cause.
6. I might bring up the kinsey scale, I’m not sure.
7. A few other things I hope to address: feeling comfortable in the bathroom, religion is a protected class, why glbt people are afraid of christians, people being allowed to fire people over the most mundane things, legalizing morality, and the belief that this ordinance pushes my views on others.
Any critique of the above stated issues is appreciated and particularly links or citations of credible studies (biological) and non credible studies (nurture) are also welcome.
I sure as hell hope your not watching me pee, pervert. I fail to see how you would know what genitalia I have without spying. If a male to female transexual comes into the women’s bathroom, how are you to know 1) that they are transexual 2) whether they are post or pre op?
Sorry. You have filled your jar of reasoning with P.C. gobbledygook. Sexual orientation or intermediate stages of sexual restructuring do not put this in the category of civil rights. Using cunnilingus and fellatio as planks in a political platform does not make the issue rise to the level of the struggle against Jim Crow in the 1950s and 1960s. If you are undergoing sexual reconstruction and you still have male sexual organs, you use the men’s room. And it doesn’t matter if you are wearing a ball gown. The same is true if you still have female sexual organs. You use the lady’s room, even if you are wearing bib overalls and hiking boots.
In pushing for this ordinance, you are not seeking tolerance. You are demanding acceptance. And, since your freedom ends at the point of another’s nose, demanding acceptance violates freedom.
In March 2003, two USAF A-10 "tankbuster" planes attacked a British convoy, killing Lance Corporal Matty Hull, despite clear and repeated signals that they were coalition troops:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6318565.stm
Cockpit video from the planes has come to light: it’s still classified, but reports indicate that one voice can be heard saying gleefully, "Somebody’s going to jail for this!"
The USA does not usually allows its forces to face trial in other jurisdictions, and has opted out of the International Criminal Court: but should these men be an exception, and tried in the courts of its ally? If not, why not?
Please indicate in your answer whether you are American, British or other.
BPSKI: how exactly has the pilot "suffered"? Compared to, say, Matty Hull’s family?
Has he been tried? Has he been punished in any way? If so, I can’t find any reference to it.
Are you saying that US troops are not in any way answerable for their actions? What if it had been a US convoy he’d attacked?
And a 2003 tragedy IS a "current event" when news of the cockpit video came out at his inquest YESTERDAY.
Ashleigh: in that case, why would we ever try anybody for involuntary manslaughter? Or once someone pulls on that uniform are they no longer responsible for their actions – free to kill friends and those surrendering (see link) at will?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1074725,00.html
BPSKI: I’m not hateful and vindictive, and I don’t hate Americans – I have many great American friends. I just can’t accept the assumption that in matters of international relations, America is above the law.
You’re right that there is a difference between an accident and a deliberate attack – and there’s something in between, and that’s called negligence.
Or course people get killed in war, but soldiers still have a responsibility to at least try not to shoot their own side or unarmed civilians waving a white flag – and with responsibility has to come the threaten of sanctions.
BPSKI: I don’t want to draw, quarter or gun down anybody. I just want to see people face the consequences of their actions: after all, Matty Hull’s family have to face the consequences to them every day, and they did NOTHING wrong. If these pilots were tried and cleared (in an impartial court, not a US military whitewash like this http://edition.cnn.com/US/9903/04/marines.cablecar.03/), so be it – but they should go through due process.
We were supposed to be the side in this conflict that stood for the rule of law, and doing the right thing: I think we have to practice what we preach.
That link again but working:
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9903/04/marines.cablecar.03/
It’s not for me to forgive, nor for me to judge. That’s for Lance Cpl Hull’s wife and family and the courts respectively.
I am a Britistish ex Serviceman.I was 51years old and volentiered to go back for the 1st Gulf War I was with 24 Fld Ambulance in Saudi and not far from where friendly fire (as it’s called) took out the warrier carrying the RRF killing, I think 9 British lads.The visibility was excellent that day but the Americans said it was misty.Later they admitted it was clear ,I may be wrong but I think the families are still waiting for some sort of closure on this matter.That was in 1991.
So after coordinating one of the biggest and most costly corporate advertising campaigns in recent memory in support of his healthcare "reform" bill, Obama has the balls to not only say others are using "smoke and mirror" tactics, but his chief advisor is out criticizing Fox News claiming they’re illegitimate because they only express their point of view.
WTF is wrong with this guy??
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/17/obama-weekly-radio-addres_n_324648.html
"The history is clear: For decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. "And for decades, whenever we have tried to reform the system, the insurance companies have done everything in their considerable power to stop us."
"It’s smoke and mirrors," the president added. "It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, ‘Take one of these, and call us in a decade.’ Well, not this time."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28397.html
At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Barack Obama and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.
The role Baucus’s chief of staff, Jon Selib, and deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina played in launching the groups was part of a successful effort by Democrats to enlist traditional enemies of health care reform to their side. No quid pro quo was involved, they insist, as do the lobbyists themselves. ………………..“What you’ve had was the Senate and the White House sitting down and cutting deals with special interests,” he said. “I don’t think that’s quite what the American people signed up for when the Obama campaign said that they were going to limit the influence of special interests in this White House.”
Criticism — from the left and the right — of the PhRMA deal and the coalitions became more pointed after it was revealed in August that the coalitions were paying two firms with close ties to the White House to cut ads: AKPD Message and Media, which was founded by White House senior adviser David Axelrod, still owes him $2 million and employs one of his sons — and GMMB.
Liberals contended drug companies were being let off the hook. And congressional Republicans distributed talking points asserting the PhRMA deal raised “serious questions as to whether the drug lobby is helping to bankroll a multimillion-dollar severance package for one of the president’s senior advisers.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/18/axelrod-emanuel-criticize_n_325097.html
White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration’s criticism of Fox News during their interviews this morning on ABC and CNN, respectively. Both Axelrod and Emanuel cautioned that one of their main concerns is that other news organizations not follow Fox’s lead in coverage, which the White House does not see as ‘fair and balanced.’
bleached……….If you think Fox News is propaganda for the right (some of it is), then surely you feel the same way about MSNBC with regards to the left’s propaganda, RIGHT??
dbc……..Who is "he"??
The most telling aspect is the response from the white house:
For a start, none of them are qualified economists, interest rates are set independently by the reserve bank, and the dollar’s value is determined by the market.
The Labour team knows as much about managing the economy as the Coalition did when they got into power. The difference is, the Government is currently being irresponsible with OUR money by trying to buy our vote. Giving exorbitant tax cuts will only fuel inflation and minimise the funds available for important areas the Government has neglected, such as Health and Education.
And lets not forget that it was a Labour government that initiated the changes to economic policy that have brought down interest rates, held off inflation and increased the value of the dollar.
Australians need to stop listening to the Government’s political rhetoric and analyse the facts for themselves. If people do this, and do not fall into the Government’s "fear of change" campaign, I think they are likely to see a need for new Leadership.
Sadly too many people are way TOO lazy to analyse anything about the Election.
You’ correct in saying that all have the same aptitude. Gee, how good is the current Govt in working out the Budget when they keep coming up with these massive, out of the blue, surpluses?
Great money managers! Wish I was so good at finding squillions of dollars that I’d forgotten about.
Anyone old enough will recall Johnnies abysmal record as Treasurer in the previous Liberal Government. He’s a real champ isn’t he!!