THIS IS A GREAT INTERVIEW....EVERYONE MUST UNDERSTAND HOW PRIVATE HEALTH CARE RIPPS US OFF...

PUT SINGLE PAYOR HEALTH CARE ON THE TABLE....

PEOPLE OVER PROFITS.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/16/former_insurance_exec_wendell_porter

“They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors”: Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry
As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour with a former top insurance executive who’s now exposing the industry’s dirty secrets. Wendell Potter once served as the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. We speak to Potter about his own transformation from industry mouthpiece to whistleblower, the healthcare industry’s extensive PR and lobbying machine, the campaign to discredit Michael Moore’s film Sicko, and the insurance industry’s most pressing task: the fight against a public option, let alone a single-payer system.

FROM DEMOCRACY NOW::::::
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/15/goldman_sachs_posts_record_profits
"WE HAVE BEEN SCREWED, BACKWARDS, FORWARDS, AND UPSIDE DOWN."

As Goldman Sachs Posts Record Profits, Matt Taibbi Probes Role of Investment Giant in US Financial Meltdown
Goldman Sachs, the nation’s most powerful financial company, has reported the richest quarterly profit in its 140-year history: $3.44 billion between April and June. Goldman’s record profits come just one month after it repaid $10 billion of TARP money to the US Treasury, freeing itself from restrictions on year-end bonuses. We speak to Matt Taibbi, whose new Rolling Stone article argues that “Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.”



Read it at Rolling Stones: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print

Express your support for parole forNative American leader and political prisonerLeonard Peltier! Hearing scheduled for July 27Your letter must be received before July 14

Leonard Peltier, Native American leader, Ojibwa-Sioux of Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, has been unjustly imprisoned for 34 years in U.S. federal prison, a victim of FBI political persecution. His upcoming parole hearing is Monday, July 27. We urge you to write letters of support for Leonard’s parole to the Bureau of Prisons by clicking here.

Act Today! Letters should be received by the BOP before July 14. Add your voice to help free Leonard Peltier! The FBI has persecuted Peltier ever since a 1975 FBI armed raid on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, in which two of their agents were killed.The FBI raid was the culmination of three years of a murderous U.S. government war on the residents of Pine Ridge, in which over 60 traditional members and American Indian Movement activists were murdered. Leonard Peltier was among the young AIM members who came to Pine Ridge to protect elder residents who had pleaded for AIM’s protection.

Because Peltier had successfully escaped to Canada and did not face trial with Robideau and Butler, the FBI waged an all-out campaign so that someone would pay for the FBI deaths. The FBI fabricated a false claim to secure Peltier’s extradition from Canada. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.During Leonard’s trial, numerous irregularities were committed by the prosecution and FBI, including falsification of evidence, forced testimony later recanted by witnesses, deliberate withholding of tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents, and more.Since his conviction in 1977, numerous appeals for a new trial for Peltier have been denied on technical grounds, despite overwhelming evidence of massive FBI misconduct in the prosecution. Peltier has many supporters in the United States and around the world, including hundreds of U.S., European and Latin American parliamentarians, Nelson Mandela, Rigoberta Menchú, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Jesse Jackson, and the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights.Take action now!

Click here to send a letter to the United States Parole Commission to express your support for parole for Leonard Peltier. Justice is long overdue!

Write to LeonardYou can also write a letter directly to Leonard to express your support for his case. Letters should be addressed to:

Leonard PeltierReg. 89637-132USP

LEWISBURGU.S. PENITENTIARY

P.O. BOX 1000

LEWISBURG, PA 17837

Web Video: Living a Nightmare - 24 Minute Film on Horrors of Factory Farming

Web Video: Living a Nightmare - 24 Minute Film on Horrors of Factory Farming

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http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_buffalo_0709
Together, We Must Stop the Annual Hazing and Slaughter of Yellowstone's Buffalo
The message below asks concerned Americans to urge the Forest Service Chief to protect Yellowstone's buffalo instead of allowing them to be hazed and killed on Forest Service land. Please help us mobilize a national outcry to save buffalo from needless suffering and slaughter!

Dear Friend,
I am sorry to report that government agencies continued their annual hazing and slaughter of Yellowstone National Park's buffalo this spring.
Call on the Obama Administration to start defending Yellowstone's wild buffalo: http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_buffalo_0709
The Yellowstone herd is now down to only 3,000 animals -- the only continuously wild and free-roaming herd left in America. Each spring some of these buffalo leave snow-covered Yellowstone in search of food at lower elevations or to give birth.
This past April and May, they were met with cruel hazing operations aimed at stopping the buffalo from migrating to their spring feeding and birthing grounds.
Government agents used helicopters, ATVs and horses to force hundreds of buffalo back into Yellowstone. Videotape taken by the Buffalo Field Campaign documented the senseless hazing of a newborn buffalo calf with a broken leg. Buffalo were even hazed inside the Park!
Then, in June, four buffalo were killed. Three of them were sent to a slaughterhouse.
Enough is enough! Please send a message right away to President Obama's new Chief of the Forest Service -- one of the key agencies behind the hazing.
Tell him to start protecting Yellowstone's wild buffalo instead of allowing them to be hazed and killed on Forest Service lands: http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_buffalo_0709
And call on Chief Tidwell to designate suitable Forest Service land outside the Park as year-round buffalo habitat, where they can be safe from being hazed or killed.
The government claims that confining wild buffalo to the Park is necessary to stop the spread of brucellosis to domestic cattle in Montana. But there has never been a documented case of transmission of brucellosis from buffalo to cattle in the wild.
The government even hazed buffalo off their birthing grounds on the Horse Butte peninsula in Montana -- even though Horse Butte is cattle-free year round!
The time has come to end these inhumane policies that have produced years and years of needless suffering, slaughter and unnatural confinement of buffalo to Yellowstone.
Yellowstone's buffalo are an iconic symbol of wild America.
Tell the new Chief of the Forest Service to let the buffalo roam free outside Yellowstone once again: http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_buffalo_0709
Sincerely,
Frances BeineckePresidentNatural Resources Defense Council

watch this film.........it will help you understand Honduras, and the puppeting of South America.

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/watch/father_roy_inside_the_school_of_assassins/

http://www.soaw.org/

What is the SOA?
The School of the Americas (SOA), in 2001 renamed the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation,” is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. Initially established in Panama in 1946, it was kicked out of that country in 1984 under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty. Former Panamanian President, Jorge Illueca, stated that the School of the Americas was the “biggest base for destabilization in Latin America.” The SOA, frequently dubbed the “School of Assassins,” has left a trail of blood and suffering in every country where its graduates have returned. Over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins.

Swine Flu Vaccine: Will We Have A Choice?

something to consider....it is more than a bit bizarre.