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Today and yesterday saw major demonstrations on Wall Street. The NY Daily News, Reuters, Xinhau, Associated Press, and even the Tennessean all have stories. But Isvestia is silent. That is worse than dishonest. It is embarrassing.
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Per capita health care spending (2007):
United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
-- Bob Somerby
The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.
* Medicare For All.
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A political operative who manipulates the religious impulse to attain personal or organizational power; in the United States, generally a "conservative" SIC.
Prob. back formation from "neocon" (neo-conservative). First seen by this writer in a column by Sidney Blumenthal excerpted back here.
Usage example: The theocons are setting up a madrassa to train staffers for the White House at Patrick Henry University.
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Why play 11 dimensional chess when the game is rigged?
Doesn't it make more sense to kick over the board? In a 198-Fold Way, of course.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Many wealthy people don't realize that jobs and social programs
Are for their own protection. The most dangerous thing is a bunch of people with no jobs, no future, and on the edge of survival.
People catch on to the score after a while. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
That's the reality of it.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot." - Albert Einstein