Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Wednesday Nov 18, 2009 5:00amKiko's House: Breast cancer bombshell lands in the middle of the health care debate
The Pump Handle: Swine flu and bird flu and lessons to be learned
Ken Silverstein: Feds document crime spree by dictator's son: Why no action?
Private Buffoon: Writes letters...
The National Protrusion: Should terror suspects be tried in U.S courts? - The Henry "Mack Truck" Harvey Show
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Rush to judgement...Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon...and his paper says...and his editor says...The state of journalism in Nebraska...Gernelism...Newsweek taps Bush aide for Obama reporting... Rogue?...Balance...Ethics...Setoodeh and Teh Ghey...Typography...The 'Dean' writes...WashTimes against protectionism before they were for it...
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New Report: Global Emissions Up 29% Since 2000 - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/globa...
US and China Strike a Deal On Renewable Energy Information Sharing - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/us-ch...
Massive New US-China Clean Energy Plans Announced - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/new-u...
Obama makes surprising progress in China - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-17-subtl...
No one expected major breakthroughs from this week’s powwow between Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao. But the two leaders agreed on some key pieces of the climate and clean energy puzzle.
The Healthiest And Unhealthiest States - http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/16/unhealthy-he...
New England states top this new set of rankings, while the South still lags.
AP POLL: Tax the rich to pay for health bill - http://apnews.excite.com/article/20091117/D9C...
"When it comes to paying for health overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: Tax the rich. ... Lawmakers also are looking at levying new taxes on insurance companies, drug companies and medical device makers. But the only approach that got majority support in the AP poll was a tax on upper-income Americans."
Hostage-Takers in the Senate by Dean Baker - http://www.truthout.org/1116093
As most of us are preparing for the holidays a small clique in the Senate, with their collaborators in the Washington punditry, are planning for a dramatic hostage-taking event. Their target of opportunity is a bill to increase the nation's debt limit. The hostage-takers propose to obstruct the bill's passage unless the rest of the country gives into their demands to cut Social Security and Medicare and takes other steps to meet their warped sense of fiscal responsibility.
The debt limit must be increased at regular intervals in order to allow the government to function normally because the government is currently operating at a deficit. If the debt limit is not passed, then at some point the government will not be able to pay workers and contractors. It won't be able to send out Social Security checks or make payments for Medicaid and unemployment insurance to state governments.
And, it will not be able to make interest payments on government bonds, effectively defaulting on the national debt.---The Wall Street gang may have suckered us with getting the TARP bailout money last year, but we don't have to let them get away with the same trick again. If they want to threaten to crash the financial system with their irresponsible hostage-taking, then we should steal a line from a former president: "bring it on!"
Energy industry front group plans "teabagger" protest at Gore's event in Portland - http://www.desmogblog.com/portland-teabaggers...
Robert Reich: Obama, China, and Wishful Thinking About American Jobs - http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama...
President Obama says he wants to "rebalance" the economic relationship between China and the U.S. as part of his plan to restart the American jobs machine. "We cannot go back," he said in September, "to an era where the Chinese . . . just are selling everything to us, we're taking out a bunch of credit-card debt or home equity loans, but we're not selling anything to them."
He hopes that hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers will make up for the inability of American consumers to return to debt-binge spending. This is wishful thinking. True, the Chinese market is huge and growing fast.
VIDEO: Veterans to Obama: Do Not Escalate in Afghanistan - http://www.truthout.org/video/111609-Veterans...
On Veterans Day the Brave New Foundation released this video to place pressure on President Barack Obama not to deploy more troops to Afghanistan. The proposed escalation, which Obama is expected to decide on in the next few weeks, means sending up to 40,000 more troops to the region. In this video, US Marine Corps Veteran, Sgt. Devon Read, said that:
"Further troops in Afghanistan is going to escalate the violence, it's going to escalate the Taliban recruiting effort and its certainly not going to create a better situation."
Nobel economist Joe Stiglitz didn't receive invite to Obama "Jobs Summit" either - http://www.americablog.com/2009/11/nobel-econ...
MSNBC Presses Obama on Campaign Promises, not shy about criticizing Obama - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/me...
To those who watch MSNBC and say its like Fox with Bush....you aren't watching often enough obviously...
CREW Requests Investigation Of Rep. Bachmann After Anti-Health Care Bill Rally At Capitol - http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/43352
Robert Parry: The Ugly Truth about Jobs - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/111709.html
To save the Republic...tax the rich.
Harvey Wasserman: For Obama It's One (Term) if by War, Two if by Peace - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17-2
Harry Reid: Speak Wobbly and Carry No Stick -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog - http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9843
Important BuzzFlash Read: MSNBC News Junkies Beware: Comcast's Likely Acquisition of NBC May Threaten Your Access to Independent Media -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/943
GOP Ramps Up Attacks on Dems Who Support Clean Energy Reform for 2010 Elections - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/gop-r...
Gore was down here in Florida recently and the loons turned out to protest him at that event also. One lady all dressed in red white and blue said that global warming was a hoax and Gore was getting rich with it.
Having said that and having read some headlines this morning I feel like climbing back into bed and pulling the covers over my head. I even had to re-sign in just to make this comment on C&L. Not a good way to begin the day.
Haven't you heard?
Brother Al's starting a chain of Tex-Mex restaurants and methane gas stations.
The right's reckless rhetoric
Nov. 17: Rachel Maddow is joined by The Huffington Post’s Frank Schaeffer to assess the latest anti-Obama rhetoric from the right, including praying for his early death.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34004...
CNN just did a long piece about the Oath Keepers and hold shit, they sound frightening and also from what I have heard Glenn Beck say on his show, he would seem to be taking his every word from these people. It's like he's their spokesperson.
Or vice versa…
Or maybe they are all playing of the script of the Oligarchs.
"Should terror suspects be tried in US courts?"
Didn't you mean to say, "US terror suspects should be tried in courts!" We're still waiting to see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rice, Perle, Wolfowitz and the rest tried for war crimes.
…'the Anti-Kleptocracy Intiative', that is hilarious. But of course the joke is on us.
We have the greatest Kleptocrats in the world, bar none, pun intended. It is Government 'doing the work of God' Sachs doncha know, which is a Minnesotan transliteration of the Wassilian - you betcha.
..is he a comedian? That bit with the caller was awful funny! It sounded like he was a member of the cowardly right wing.
thing go yesterday? Joe ever come home?
I think that Newsweek story basically replays all the time, except the conflicts of interest aren't as clear.
I just had a routine mammo, and I'm 42. My health care professional told me not to pay attention to the USPSTF guidelines about early detection. It makes NO sense and here's why: Early detection saves lives. Invasive surgeries for cancer, when it is advanced, generate more money for health insurance companies and surgeons.
This news is going to keep some women from doing self-exams and having mammos, and it's because health insurance companies want you to think Obama is going to ration care! People will literally miss early detection and die.
Dr. Schwartz, on the USPSTF, is an advisor for Blue Cross and Blue Shield - tell me that isn't fishy. This agency isn't even a government agency! It's an independent task force that gets federal money.
Get it now? There is more to be gained from trashing Obama's health care plan and forcing people into having expensive treatments. It IS that simple, and the docs involved with the news should all be ashamed. IMHO!
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