SOURCE: Truthout.org
Monday 30 November 2009
by: Dina Rasor, t r u t h o u t | Special Investigative Report
(Image: Jared
Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t;
Adapted: LizaP)
Recently, the Congressional Research Service [...]
SOURCE: Alternet.org
By Raj Patel, Picador Press
Posted on November 30, 2009, Printed on November 30, 2009
The following is an excerpt from Raj Patel's new book, The Value of Nothing (Picador, 2010).
If war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, recession is His [...]
WTO STILL PARTIES LIKE IT'S 1999
on 10th Anniversary of the Battle in Seattle
Bankers' scheme to re-open finance casino worldwide
Monday, November 30, 2009
by Greg Palast for Ring of Fire
GENEVA — Apparently, one meltdown isn't enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet today in Geneva on the tenth anniversary of' [...]
Dear Friend,
Ask Governor Lynch to withdraw Raymond Donald's confirmation to the Air Resources Council for not revealing his relationship with PSNH.
Contact Governor Lynch and Commissioner Burack before December 9th!
New Hampshire Sierra Club has an appeal pending before a NH Department of Environmental Services tribunal, the Air Resources [...]
New York understands that just because you use paper ballots doesn't mean optical scanners won't help defraud your elections. Paper ballots are as good as the hands that count them. In NH most ballots are never counted by hand - only by LHS Associates and Diebold. Last I looked, nobody [...]
In NH, nearly 90% of our votes are now controlled by a private corporation - Diebold, and its New England affiliate LHS Associates. Yes we have paper ballots. But we don't count them! The software used to "count" our votes in these Diebold optical scanners was originally developed by a' [...]
SOURCE: ElectionTransparencyCoalition.org
Last night, on the eve of Thanksgiving, election fraud investigator Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. published an article in the Governeur Times revealing Impossible Numbers Certified in NY-23. Phillips is best known for his book, Witness to a Crime: A Citizens’ Audit of an American [...]
FBI Reports Hate Crimes Up in Arizona, Phoenix, and Maricopa County
By Stephen Lemons in Feathered Bastard
Mon., Nov. 23 2009 @ 3:23PM
The FBI today released its hate crime report for 2008, showing the number of documented hate crimes by participating agencies to be up nationally by about 2.1 [...]
Posted 11/20/2009
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- Correctional experts and Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team engineers visited the Kunar Prison construction site to conduct a quality assurance check and address potential security concerns recently in the Kunar Province.
Experts with the [...]
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the membership of the Glastonbury
Democratic Town Committee that we strongly urge Majority Leader Harry Reid
to remove Joseph Lieberman from his Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for his continued duplicitous
conduct and his continued efforts to undermine the progressive programs
advocated [...]
..Moving 15 million Americans into this medical ghetto...
...Moving 15 million low-income Americans into a program called [...]
Almost every state legislature in the last two years has confronted the health care issue and the problem of the uninsured and underinsured. Massachusetts and California have captured the headlines with their initiatives and several other states have begun serious discussions on what solutions [...]
By DAVID POGUE
Published: November 12, 2009
Starting next week, Verizon will double the early-termination fee for smartphones. That is, if you get a BlackBerry, Android or similar phone from Verizon, and you decide to switch phones before your two-year contract is up, you'll be socked with a' [...]
PRESS RELEASE
NOVEMBER 14, 2009 PORTSMOUTH, NH-As someone who has watched Ray Buckley smear and assail political leaders in a personal manner over many years it is regrettable that Doug Lambert lowered himself and Granite Grok to Mr. Buckley's standard on his show this morning. While a [...]
SOURCE: Democrats.com The House of Representatives passed health-reform legislation that included an anti-choice amendment that will seriously jeopardize women's access to abortion – making it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new health system to offer abortion coverage to women.
This would have the effect of denying women the right [...]
SOURCE: NYT
Acorn Sues Over Funding Vote in House
By KAREEM FAHIM, Published: November 12, 2009
The antipoverty group Acorn filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Thursday, saying that the House violated the Constitution by passing a resolution barring the [...]
There's really no other way to explain why Senator Coburn has put a hold on S. 1963, the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009.
José Pequeño's name is ironic. In Spanish, "pequeño" means "small", but there is nothing small about this man, his family or the community [...]
SOURCE: Agonist.org
BY Michael Collins
The Supreme Court of the United States will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding. Will it retain some limitations on corporate influence or will the court blow the lid off and cause a perpetual [...]
....The Defense authorization bill passed by the Senate Thursday night included alternations to benefits and practices first announced and celebrated roughly two weeks ago. Perhaps the biggest change is that members of the Federal Employees Retirement System will be able to have [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeremy Funk, 202-470-5878
DATE: November 8, 2009 Lauren Weiner, 202-470-5870
Americans United for Change Applauds U.S. Reps. Hodes and Shea-Porter For Helping Pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act
“Thank You Representatives Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter for Standing Up to the Big Health Insurance Companies and [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews, November 8, 2009
House Passes Weak Public Option Health Care Bill, Selling Out Women's Rights. Includes Democrats Who Voted Against Bill
By Rob Kall
Giving a $1.2 trillion gift to the health insurance industry, betraying women's rights, the house gave the white house what it wanted.' [...]
SOURCE: OpEdNews
November 7, 2009 at 21:51:52
Manifest Positivity: Talking with Dave Berman
By Joan Brunwasser
I first encountered Dave Berman after the 2004 Presidential election. He had been writing about election integrity for years. Since then, his areas of interest have expanded and evolved. We're here to talk about what he's up' [...]
As the former Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Gregg continues to have opinions about how and how much of our money should be spent. A few things to keep in mind when reading his remarks are:
1) The federal government is not like a family [...]
Exposed: The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change
Exposed: The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change
Huffington Post Katherine Goldstein
First Posted: 11- 5-09
By MARK WHITEHOUSE
The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat. For that task, John Geanakoplos of Yale University takes inspiration from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."
The play's focus is collateral, with the money lender Shylock [...]
Responding to your email message--
Dear Ms.
Thank you for contacting me about health care reform. This is one of the most important issues facing our nation and I appreciate hearing your thoughts and suggestions for how we might address it.
In New Hampshire and across [...]
Loose with numbers: Medicare fraud report a fiction
By PIERRE TRISTAM
ESSAYS
I haven't watched CBS' "60 Minutes" in years. But it was one of those stories that stops you in your tracks: Medicare fraud is "a $60 billion crime." Medicare is the $456 billion government health insurance program serving 46 million [...]
ACORN Under Attack, Labor Offers Support
By Paul Burton
Despite recent negative news reports, the activist group ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) continues to advocate for [...]
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the [...]
