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Mar 17 · , Jon.
March 17, 2010
The greatest problem with the Senate health care bill is not that it does “too little” to help people. The problem is that the bill does too many terrible things to help all the bad actors.
The Senate bill further entrenches the private health insurance system. It continues the terrible pattern of privatizing our social safety net in such a way that business skims 20% off the top. It makes sure the big, life saving medications of the future remain . It takes a
Mar 17 · Official Documents Confirm Major Criminal Investigations of Turkish Operatives in Chicago
Wednesday, 17. March 2010
Newly Released FBI Documents Support Explosive Claims by Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds
FOIA CollageRecently released FBI documents prove the existence of highly sensitive National Security and criminal investigations of “Turkish Activities” in Chicago prior to September 11, 2001. These documents add further support to many of the allegations that former FBI translato
Mar 17 · I saw this documentary yesterday and was in a state of deep depression. Many or most of you have probably seen it, but to me it was new. It is about how mass media in the US is controlled by a handful of large corporations. These corporations have one goal: to get larger and control the system that reports the news. To this end, big media has aligned itself with the conservative Republican political minority and has pushed their selfish agenda in order to gain political favor and build fortune
Mar 17 ·
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: The U.S. Army, ALBAZ, daliborlev)
Victory At Last?
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Take a moment with this:
That is the cover of Newsweek from the first week of March, the month in which we will mark the seventh anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. It was 2,555 days ago this Saturday, in fact, when televisions all across America lit up with the pyrotechnic images of "Sh
Mar 17 · When I worked for Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign in 2003, he routinely won the most applause at debates but was minimized or entirely left out of the next day's stories in the corporate media. This meant that peace, and fair trade, and single-payer healthcare were left out too. At one debate at the University of New Hampshire, Kucinich pushed back.
Ted Koppel of ABC opened the debate with questions about endorsements. The second round of questions was about standing in the polls.
Mar 17 · I wrote this a year ago, but I think it remains relevant today...
The Ballad of Henry Knox
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Tuesday 17 March 2009
I've spent the last several weeks trying to come up with some pithy metaphor or analogy to frame everything that's going on in some optimistic or courageous light, but it's been nothing doing. Everybody's all up in arms over the million-dollar bonuses about to be collected by A.I.G. executives, and for good reason, but all the
Mar 16 · “Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.” – psychiatrist and best selling author M. Scott Peck, from his book, “”
The essence of Dr. Peck’s of an evil person is one whose self-awareness is so painful to himself that he will do anything in his power to avoid
Mar 16 · I took great pride in what I did.
I worked at one of the "best" schools in town, and I worked at one of the "worst". I was the same teacher, but the other factors were variables.
At the "best" school I had tremendous parental involvement. The parents overall demanded that their children respect the teachers and follow the rules. The parents themselves showed respect. We had the supplies and textbooks we needed.
At the other school there was very little parental involvement. Ma
Mar 16 · Senator Ted Kaufman (D - DE) will deliver a speech today that represents a potential turning point for the country.
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As part of that effort, we must ensure that the legal system tackles financial crimes with the same gravity as other crimes. When crimes happened in the past (as in the case of Enron, when aided and abetted by, among others, Merrill Lynch, and not prevented by the supposed gatekeepers at Arthur Andersen), there were criminal convictions. If individua
Mar 16 · Imagine a world in which you can only talk about an issue----like the troubled relationship between Mother Goose characters, Jack and Jill---by referring to a less than three week old story written by someone in the corporate media. Forget the rhyme that goes something like this:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up got Jack, and home did trot
As fast as he could caper
He went to bed and bound his h
Mar 16 · ...praying to god that you never get really sick. Since there's nothing to address the overall cost of care.
So if you make median income, you get a subsidy bringing your out of pocket annual cost for premium down to about $5,500 (taken from Keiser Foundation's subsidy calculator, and assumes the "silver" or mid-range plan option.) Not exactly chump change.
Then, you have the cost of your deductible, say $1,000. Could be less, could be more, but I've payed $1,000 before when I once ha
Mar 14 · than before. It appears that the lower 5% of the schools might be closed each year. At that rate it won't take long to get the agenda of the corporatization of education in place. This replaces the AYP,
Seems to me that no matter what the schools do...if they are in the bottom 5% they are doomed. It's called grading on the curve.
As long as I am a member of this forum, I will continue to post about the hijacking of public education. If people disagree, the inevitable will happen.
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