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I will post about whatever I feel like posting about.Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-12195984420430217682009-11-06T07:30:00.001-06:002009-11-06T07:30:43.979-06:00[Fwd: Fred's Head Companion - American Printing House for the Blind]<br> <br> -------- Original Message -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Delivered-To: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nimerjaber1@gmail.com">nimerjaber1@gmail.com</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Received: </th> <td>by 10.143.5.7 with SMTP id h7cs64678wfi; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:21:33 -0800 (PST)</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Return-Path: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:3wyL0ShEKCyUOPSFQMZ+GFFEQSPYZHPPHMF.DPNOJNFSKBCFScHNBJM.DPN@feedburner.bounces.google.com"><3wyL0ShEKCyUOPSFQMZ+GFFEQSPYZHPPHMF.DPNOJNFSKBCFScHNBJM.DPN@feedburner.bounces.google.com></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Received-SPF: </th> <td>pass (google.com: domain of <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:3wyL0ShEKCyUOPSFQMZ+GFFEQSPYZHPPHMF.DPNOJNFSKBCFScHNBJM.DPN@feedburner.bounces.google.com">3wyL0ShEKCyUOPSFQMZ+GFFEQSPYZHPPHMF.DPNOJNFSKBCFScHNBJM.DPN@feedburner.bounces.google.com</a> designates 10.151.95.25 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.151.95.25;</td> </tr> <tr> <th align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="baseline">Authentication-Results: </th> <td>mr.google.com; 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margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"> <table id="itemcontentlist"> <tbody> <tr xmlns=""> <td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"> <p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" name="1" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/FredsHeadCompanion/%7E3/n_Db2eHYTtY/leaders-and-legends-helen-adams-keller.html">Leaders and Legends: Helen Adams Keller</a> </p> <p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 05 Nov 2009 12:20 PM PST</p> <div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <h4>Helen Adams Keller<br> <span class="subtitle">Inducted 2002<br> Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field</span></h4> <p>Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1880. At the age of 18 months she experienced a fever that left her deaf, blind and unable to speak. An extremely intelligent and sensitive child, by the age of seven she had invented over 60 different signs by which she could talk to her family. Because of this restricted communication her frustration and anger grew and were not relieved until Annie Sullivan, a 20 year old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, came to be her teacher. With her help Helen learned the manual alphabet, braille, the Tadoma method of reading lips and later learned to speak. With Annie as her interpreter, in 1888 she attended Perkins Institute for the Blind and in 1894 the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York. She received a B.A. cum laude in 1904 from Radcliffe College. She thus became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. In 1936 she moved to Connecticut where she lived until her death in 1968 at the age of 87.</p> <img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/images/keller1.jpg" class="right" alt="1956, Helen Keller presents the prestigious Albert Lasker Medical Research Award to Drs. Arnall Patz (right) and Everett Kinsey. Kinsey is the biochemist who organized a larger study that confirmed Patz's RLF oxygen findings." border="0" height="240" vspace="5" width="300"> <p>While at Radcliffe, Helen Keller began a writing career which was to continue for 50 years. In addition to <em>The Story of My Life</em>, she wrote 11 other books and numerous articles on blindness, deafness, social issues and women's rights. Many books and plays were written about her life. </p> <p>Despite the broad range of her interests, Helen Keller never lost sight of the needs of others who were blind and deaf-blind. Soon after the American Foundation for the Blind was established in 1921 she became a member of the Foundation staff, where she worked until her death in 1968 as counselor on national relations. In 1932 she also became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom. In 1946 she was appointed counselor on international relations for the American Foundation for Overseas Blind (renamed Helen Keller International), visiting 35 countries during seven trips between 1946 and 1957.</p> <img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/images/kellerstamp.jpg" class="right" alt="First day cover commemorating the Helen Keller Centennial 1880-1980 postmarked June 27, 1980" border="0" height="193" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="350"> <p>Helen Keller received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University, Harvard, Universities of Glasgow, Berlin, Delhi and Johannesburg. An entire room at AFB is devoted to a collection of her personal papers and memorabilia, including Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross, Japan's Sacred Treasure, the Lions Humanitarian Award for lifetime service and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. In 1965 she was one of the 20 elected to the Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair.</p> <p>More rewarding to Helen Keller than the many honors she received, were the acquaintances and friendships she made with most of the leading personalities of her time. There were few world figures, from Grover Cleveland to Charlie Chaplin, to Nehru to John F. Kennedy, that she did not meet. She was truly a remarkable world ambassador and a distinguished leader advocating for better services for blind and deaf-blind wherever she went.</p> <img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/bios/photos/keller_small.jpg" alt="Helen Keller" border="1" height="188" width="150"> <img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/bios/photos/pl_keller.jpg" alt="Helen Keller's Hall of Fame Plaque" border="0" height="224" width="150"> <p class="ps">Plaque sponsored by the American Foundation for the Blind and Perkins School for the Blind</p> <h4>Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan (1930 Newsreel Footage)</h4> <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gv1uLfF35Uw&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gv1uLfF35Uw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></object> <h5>About the Hall of Fame</h5> <p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/index.html">The Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field</a> is dedicated to preserving, honoring, and promoting the tradition of excellence manifested by the specific individuals inducted into the Hall of Fame and through the history of outstanding services provided to people who are blind or visually impaired. </p> <p>These significant professional colleagues of the recent and distant past are a fascinating cross-section of heroes and pioneers who not only shaped our rich history, philosophy, knowledge and skills, but also give us insights into current and future challenges. These giants shared their personal lives and showed us strategies to ensure that services for blind persons remain unique and specialized. Enjoy their lives and contributions and reflect upon your own list of heroes. </p> <p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/index.html">Hall of Fame: Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field</a> is a project of the entire field of blindness. It is curated by the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.aph.org">American Printing House for the Blind</a>, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.<br> <br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/index.html">Visit the virtual Hall of Fame for the inspiring stories of many more heroes of the field of blindness</a>.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img moz-do-not-send="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14728791-137335680053101603?l=www.fredshead.info" height="1" width="1"></div> <div class="feedflare"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/FredsHeadCompanion?a=n_Db2eHYTtY:7l_rVWs-SQg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/FredsHeadCompanion?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"> <p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" name="2" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/FredsHeadCompanion/%7E3/YS5_InCMnAI/giggling-elmo-hot-tomato-game.html">Giggling Elmo Hot Tomato Game</a> </p> <p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 05 Nov 2009 06:29 AM PST</p> <div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <p>It's the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. In this game, Elmo appears as a plush tomato that begins giggling when the child pushes its nose. Children from 3 years and up will also giggle as they pass the tomato back and forth as quickly as possible so they are not the one holding Elmo when he stops giggling. To add to the fun, 20 cards are included with letters, colors or categories on them to guide the players to calling out an item associated with the card and then passing Elmo on quickly so as not to be caught with him when he stops giggling. Elmo measures about 5 x 5" x 3.5" and uses 2 "AA" batteries that are included.<br> <br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.independentliving.com//prodinfo.asp?number=363571">Click this link to purchase the Giggling Elmo Hot Tomato Game from independent living aids</a>.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img moz-do-not-send="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14728791-8545563225517073083?l=www.fredshead.info" height="1" width="1"></div> <div class="feedflare"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/FredsHeadCompanion?a=YS5_InCMnAI:C32EybJDjq0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/FredsHeadCompanion?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-top: 4px; margin-top: 1.5em; width: 100%;" id="footer"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="margin: 0pt 6px 1.2em 0pt; text-align: left; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; 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He resigned in 2007 when allegations surfaced that <br>he spanked defendants with a wooden paddle. Then earlier this year a <br>grand jury indicted him on charges that he physically and sexually <br>abusing young male defendants in return for help with their cases.<p>He originally faced 103 charges involving 15 young men, but prosecutors <br>dropped four of the men's cases during the trial, and the judge threw <br>out all ethics charges against him because the statute of limitations <br>expired.<p>On Wednesday, the judge dismissed kidnapping charges, saying accusations <br>that Thomas took young men to a private courthouse office for paddlings <br>didn't constitute kidnapping.<p>"I don't think kidnapping occurred in the Mobile County courthouse in a <br>room that is unlocked," he said.<p>Neilson also threw out the extortion charges accusing Thomas of securing <br>sexual favors from inmates in return for leniency. He said Alabama's law <br>involves taking things of value permanently or for a long period, and <br>taking sexual favors doesn't fit the definition of the law.<p>"How do you deprive someone permanently of sexual favors?" he asked <br>prosecutors.<p>Defense attorney Jeff Deen said he was pleased that four-fifths of the <br>original charges had been dismissed or thrown out, and only 21 charges <br>remained.<p>Chief Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson said the jury would <br>still consider very serious charges of assault, sexual abuse, attempted <br>sodomy and sodomy. The last charge is the most serious and carries a <br>sentence of 10 years to life in prison.<p>Thomas did not testify in his own defense during the trial. Defense <br>attorney Robert "Cowboy Bob" Clark said there was no need because of the <br>lack of credibility of Thomas' 11 accusers.<p>"They were a bunch of felonious liars," Clark said.<p>Instead of Thomas defending himself, the defense team spent two days <br>presenting a Roman Catholic archbishop, two school principals, a <br>kindergarten teacher and a coach who described how Thomas spent many <br>hours speaking to school groups and mentoring young people, particularly <br>those in trouble.<p>"What else do you want? You want the pope?" 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All Rights Reserved.Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com230tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-31341160016489145992009-10-07T09:21:00.001-05:002009-10-07T09:21:51.403-05:00[Fwd: Fred's Head Companion - American Printing House for the Blind]-------- Original Message --------<br>Delivered-To: <a href="mailto:nimerjaber1@gmail.com">nimerjaber1@gmail.com</a><br>Received: by 10.239.185.10 with SMTP id a10cs748764hbh; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 <br>05:17:50 -0700 (PDT)<br>Return-Path: <br><<a href="mailto:31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp%2BWVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com">31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp+WVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com</a>> <p>Received-SPF: pass (<a href="http://google.com">google.com</a>: domain of <br><a href="mailto:31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp%2BWVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com">31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp+WVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com</a> <br>designates 10.220.104.83 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.220.104.83;<br>Authentication-Results: <a href="http://mr.google.com">mr.google.com</a>; spf=pass (<a href="http://google.com">google.com</a>: domain of <br><a href="mailto:31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp%2BWVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com">31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp+WVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com</a> <br>designates 10.220.104.83 as permitted sender) <br>smtp.mail=<a href="mailto:31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp%2BWVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com">31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp+WVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com</a>; <br>dkim=pass <br>header.i=<a href="mailto:31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp%2BWVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com">31YbMShEKC3MefiVgcp+WVVUgifopXffXcV.TfdeZdViaRSVisXdRZc.Tfd@feedburner.bounces.google.com</a> <p>Received: from <a href="http://mr.google.com">mr.google.com</a> ([10.220.104.83]) by 10.220.104.83 with <br>SMTP id n19mr4606435vco.8.1254917868263 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 07 Oct 2009 <br>05:17:48 -0700 (PDT)<br>DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=<a href="http://google.com">google.com</a>; <br>s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:precedence:received <br>:message-id:date:subject:from:to:content-type; <br>bh=i8wjgo02pi5N5OHTa13WfVjCycINJv3O9fO8VgFVuOE=; <br>b=NXeE6/Wkxb6VOKZKfzP/e1z1Y+wQEH9izbV6BTIyU7bapMRpVUNgGrx8OmOJOH3BhE <br>bIJC3XRnn6GLhCOD3yXg==<br>DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=<a href="http://google.com">google.com</a>; s=beta; <br>h=mime-version:sender:precedence:message-id:date:subject:from:to <br>:content-type; <br>b=umjQPOrbLhu2Ix+pXL5WPT+osq9BptFjoGY/tYZ/r1IBl6x6fwM0sP7aT47BGvIFxr <br>tHSd/MT0FS/jms0xbKMg==<br>MIME-Version: 1.0<br>Sender: <a href="mailto:noreply%2Bfeedproxy@google.com">noreply+feedproxy@google.com</a><br>Precedence: bulk<br>Received: by 10.220.104.83 with SMTP id <br>n19mt4606435vco.8.1254917845760; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:17:25 -0700 (PDT)<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:0016e645f8c86b4774047557540b@google.com">0016e645f8c86b4774047557540b@google.com</a>><br>Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:17:48 +0000<br>Subject: Fred's Head Companion - American Printing House for the Blind<br>From: Fred's Head from APH <<a href="mailto:fredshead@aph.org">fredshead@aph.org</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:nimerjaber1@gmail.com">nimerjaber1@gmail.com</a><br>Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e645f8c8c284b90475575593<p><p> Fred's Head Companion - American Printing House for the Blind<br> <<a href="http://www.fredshead.info/">http://www.fredshead.info/</a>><br> <<a href="http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/FredsHeadCompanion">http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/FredsHeadCompanion</a>><p><br> Link to Fred's Head from APH <<a href="http://www.fredshead.info/">http://www.fredshead.info/</a>><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------<p>How Big is My World? <br><<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/FredsHeadCompanion/%7E3/x2ylGJYAnYI/how-big-is-my-world.html">http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/FredsHeadCompanion/%7E3/x2ylGJYAnYI/how-big-is-my-world.html</a>> <p><br>Posted: 06 Oct 2009 08:41 AM PDT<p>by Donna J. Jodhan<p>In the normal scheme of things, my world should be as big as I want it <br>to be but in today's society it is very difficult for me to define the <br>size of my world. You see, my world is not really in my hands. For the <br>most part and sadly so, my world remains in the hands of society and I <br>can tell you that there are days where I wish I could change this; but I <br>can't. Sad but true.<p>One of my favorite quotations is by Robert F. Kennedy: "Some men see <br>things as they are and say why! I dream things that never were and say <br>why not!" And this is the philosophy that I use every day of my life in <br>order to define my world in my own way.<p>You may be wondering why I would say that my world is not in my hands <br>but rather in the hands of society and I'll tell you why.<p>Society has inadvertently and continues to erect countless barriers for <br>me and for others who are blind and visually impaired. They have erected <br>daunting barriers for millions of persons with disabilities and have <br>even gone the extra mile to do the same for seniors. In the case of <br>persons with disabilities, and in particular persons who are blind and <br>visually impaired, one of the most challenging barriers that I and my <br>cofrères face is a barrier called Attitude.<p>This barrier is nothing new and has been around for too long and if I <br>and my cofrères do not take steps to bring it down, then I am afraid <br>that we will find ourselves inadvertently short changing tomorrow's <br>generation of disabled kids of a better future. In short, if we do not <br>start to pro-act in stead of react, we will be robbing our disabled kids <br>of their rights to a future that ought to include them as contributing <br>members to society.<p>All my life I have had to battle attitude barriers from society. As <br>early as I can remember: My parents had to battle the system to allow me <br>to obtain my formal education. Then as a university student I had to <br>endure constant remarks from those professors who made no effort to hide <br>their discontent about having a blind student in their class. In the <br>workplace I and others have had to deal with the narrow mindedness of <br>managers and co-workers alike who do not believe that blind and visually <br>impaired persons can be productive and this is why I am so glad that I <br>can now use the Internet as my workplace. Most of my clients are <br>blissfully unaware that I am blind and frankly, they would probably not <br>care as long as I was able to perform to their satisfaction.<p>I am not content to sit back and wait for things to happen and this is <br>why I have managed to expand my world much more than many others like <br>me. I challenged an ice skating school to teach me to ice skate. I have <br>learned to play chess. I have written two books. I have hang glided, <br>sailed, and even driven around in a parking lot. No, I am not showing <br>off! Just trying to motivate others to expand their world. Nothing is <br>impossible if you put your mind to it but to be possible one has to be <br>realistic.<p>The attitude barrier needs to be addressed and if I want to be <br>charitable which I am, I can say that 99.9% of the time, this barrier is <br>erected by those who are limited by such things as: Cultural beliefs, <br>fear of the unknown, fear of interacting with those who are different, <br>and an unwillingness to learn new things and meet new people. I am going <br>to give you three websites that you can visit in order to learn more <br>about the world of blind and visually impaired persons. <br><a href="http://www.nfb.org">http://www.nfb.org</a>, <a href="http://www.acb.org">http://www.acb.org</a> and <a href="http://www.afb.org">http://www.afb.org</a>.<p>I'm Donna J. Jodhan, an accessibility and special needs business <br>consultant wishing you a terrific day. If you'd like to learn more about <br>me, then you can visit some of my blog spots at:<br>Donna Jodhan! Advocating accessibility for all: <br><a href="http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com">http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com</a> <<a href="http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com">http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com</a>><br>Weekly Saturday postings on issues of accessibility: <br><a href="http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html">http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html</a> <br><<a href="http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html">http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html</a>><br>blogs on various issues and answers to consumers concerns: <br><a href="http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm">http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm</a> <br><<a href="http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm">http://www.sterlingcreations.com/businessdesk.htm</a>><p><<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/FredsHeadCompanion?a=x2ylGJYAnYI:UCI5JhCEbtU:yIl2AUoC8zA">http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/FredsHeadCompanion?a=x2ylGJYAnYI:UCI5JhCEbtU:yIl2AUoC8zA</a>> <p><br>You are subscribed to email updates from Fred's Head from APH <br><<a href="http://www.fredshead.info/">http://www.fredshead.info/</a>><br>To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now <br><<a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=8-2kaZRd4bxXdG7ejs8aee6JWUk">http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=8-2kaZRd4bxXdG7ejs8aee6JWUk</a>>. <br> Email delivery powered by Google<br>Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-48927518663602931052009-10-05T23:01:00.001-05:002009-10-05T23:01:59.961-05:00[Fwd: NEWSCHANNEL 13 Breaking News]-------- Original Message --------<br>Delivered-To: <a href="mailto:nimerjaber1@gmail.com">nimerjaber1@gmail.com</a><br>Received: by 10.239.185.10 with SMTP id a10cs629302hbh; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 <br>20:59:28 -0700 (PDT)<br>Received: by 10.224.70.202 with SMTP id <br>e10mr897802qaj.16.1254801567122; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:59:27 -0700 (PDT)<br>Return-Path: <<a href="mailto:krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com">krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com</a>><br>Received: from <a href="http://smtp03.worldnow.com">smtp03.worldnow.com</a> (<a href="http://smtp03.worldnow.com">smtp03.worldnow.com</a> <br>[216.74.146.23]) by <a href="http://mx.google.com">mx.google.com</a> with ESMTP id <br>9si49214qyk.27.2009.10.05.20.59.26; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:59:27 -0700 (PDT)<br>Received-SPF: neutral (<a href="http://google.com">google.com</a>: 216.74.146.23 is neither permitted <br>nor denied by domain of <a href="mailto:krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com">krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com</a>) client-ip=216.74.146.23;<br>Authentication-Results: <a href="http://mx.google.com">mx.google.com</a>; spf=neutral (<a href="http://google.com">google.com</a>: <br>216.74.146.23 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of <br><a href="mailto:krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com">krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com</a>) smtp.mail=<a href="mailto:krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com">krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com</a><br>Received: from <a href="http://njlist07.worldnow.com">njlist07.worldnow.com</a> ([10.1.10.83]) by <br><a href="http://smtp03.worldnow.com">smtp03.worldnow.com</a> with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 5 Oct <br>2009 23:59:26 -0400<br>Received: from mail pickup service by <a href="http://njlist07.worldnow.com">njlist07.worldnow.com</a> with <br>Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:59:27 -0400<br>From: NEWSCHANNEL 13 <<a href="mailto:krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com">krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com</a>><br>Subject: NEWSCHANNEL 13 Breaking News<br>To: <<a href="mailto:nimerjaber1@gmail.com">nimerjaber1@gmail.com</a>><br>MIME-Version: 1.0<br>Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:NJLIST07Pf3L9BGTuAy0286eb0e@njlist07.worldnow.com">NJLIST07Pf3L9BGTuAy0286eb0e@njlist07.worldnow.com</a>><br>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2009 03:59:27.0062 (UTC) <br>FILETIME=[65ED6F60:01CA4639]<br>Date: 5 Oct 2009 23:59:27 -0400<br>Return-Path: <a href="mailto:krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com">krdonews@wnmail.krdo.com</a><p><p>If you have trouble reading this email, please go to <br><a href="http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11263276">http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11263276</a> <br><<a href="http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11263276&Call=Email&Format=HTML">http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11263276&Call=Email&Format=HTML</a>><p><<a href="http://www.krdo.com">http://www.krdo.com</a>><br> Hello Nimer NEWSCHANNEL 13 Breaking News<p> <br><<a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wn.nat.krdo/news;sz=468x60;wnsz=36;ord=32597467899322?">http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wn.nat.krdo/news;sz=468x60;wnsz=36;ord=32597467899322?</a>?> <p><p>*Four Names Of KIA Ft. 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Their stories matched other detainees' held in another prison<br>in Balad, north of Baghdad, during the same period, last year.<p>A former detainee, who preferred to be identified as Abu Manal, who is a<br>Shiite from southern Baghdad, revealed the process of being transferred to<br>the above mentioned prison after U.S. forces captured him in a raid<br>operation on his home village last year on charges of belonging to Jaish<br>al-Mahdi (JAM).<p>He said: "In the beginning, us four were blindfolded and handcuffed; we were<br>transferred to a camp in al-A'dwaniya area, or Arab Jabour, inside a luxury<br>house that belonged to one of Saddam's men before he fled to Syria.<p>"The four of us plus others that were there, were crammed inside the pool of<br>the house before we were taken in armored vehicles to a nearby camp, where<br>we stayed for hours before we were all spread over Humvees.<p>"We were then taken on a route through my village, as I was able to<br>recognize it because of the guard in charge of watching me got busy flirting<br>with his colleague in the car, I realized we were heading towards Babil<br>province, south of Baghdad.<p>"I spent two weeks in a U.S. forces camp, which was formerly used for<br>transmitting an Iraqi television channel, before April 2003, in an area<br>called al-Mashroua'a or Mashroua'a al-Musayab, 40 kilometers south of<br>Baghdad.<p>"I along with my friends were subjected to harsh rounds of interrogations,<br>with the use of various kinds of psychological and physical tortures. We<br>were thrown in low temperature cells in a severe situation, semi-naked,<br>except for undershorts, with cameras set up in one corner of the cell to<br>monitor our actions.<p>"Throughout this time, we were prevented from sleeping while lying down,<br>rather we were forced to sit cross-legged, and in any other position, we<br>would be subjected to severe punishments, including simulated drowning in<br>semi-frozen waters or severe beatings."<p>Abu Manal described the detention center as: "A closed hall divided into<br>three parts, of which the center part was the prison administration and<br>bathrooms, and along its two sides were sets of cells, each of which<br>consists of five partitions each one with five steel cells, which means 25<br>cells on each side, or 50 cells in each hall, where one inmate was to each<br>cell.<p>"The cells were like a metal box less than 2-meters in length, width and<br>height, with one installed bed that rises about ½ a meter from the ground.<p>"The cells did not include any furniture and the inmate served his time<br>without a mattress or blanket and under 0-Celsius temperature."<p>Abu Manal revealed the way he knew these details, was during interrogation<br>by an intelligence officer, as he (detainee) mastered the English language,<br>he stated: "A relationship with some kind of flexibility in dealing with me<br>as a prisoner was formed, he tried to win my heart through some of the<br>facilities provided for me, such as increasing the number of bathroom visits<br>and not to be bothered by the guards; I exploited these facilitations as I<br>started out of curiosity to get around inside the place, and just look<br>around."<p>Ahmad al-Shimmery, 27 years-old, who was detained at a location in Balad,<br>north of Baghdad revealed to al-Hayat newspaper other types of torture he<br>and other detainees suffered, he said, "I was exposed to severe<br>psychological torture, where prisoners were put in a helicopter, blindfolded<br>and with tied hands and after their flight takes off, the door would open<br>and the translator would tell the detainee to watch himself die, and then<br>throw him to the ground for a surprise that he would fall on a large piece<br>of sponge and then the investigator would say, next time the sponge will not<br>be there."<p>Other forms of tortures told by al-Shimmery was that U.S. intelligence were<br>using dogs trained on boxing to torture the detainee, and noted that: "The<br>second method of torture used on me during the investigation was being<br>tortured by a dog trained to box, where the detainee is placed in a small<br>cell to fit one person only with a large size dog, who would burly and<br>forcefully punch the detainee with both hands, and if you try to resist the<br>prisoner would be bitten by the dog until he bleeds and then would go back<br>to a normal sitting position in his blood. This form of torture would<br>continue until the dog feels that his victim had surrendered, and then the<br>dog would go back to the door.<p>"The third way of torture was to strip the detainees naked and place them in<br>a steel chamber with freezing temperature, through the translator he would<br>be told that he will be thrown in the river, blindfolded and with hands<br>tied behind his back, and actually the detainee would be thrown into a deep<br>basin for a short period then he would be lifted and sent for<br>interrogations."<p>He reported on the use of unethical methods of tortures with women in the<br>prison, he said: "The female prisoners that were considered not cooperative,<br>they would be detained in quarries alone for several days without food or<br>water and then one of the prisoners would be forced to take food for them<br>while completely naked and the female detainee will be compelled to look at<br>the man's body, otherwise she will be exposed to tougher means of torture."<p>Al-Hayat newspaper, made an attempt to contact a senior official in the U.S.<br>military Corps in Iraq, who asked for anonymity, he was asked to respond to<br>the reality of the secret prisons in Balad and Mashroua'a al-Musayab, he<br>said: "This is a complex and political interrelated issue, we will not<br>comment on it now."<p>CAROLINE AESHO<p><a href="http://www.baghdadtimes.net/Arabic/index.php?sid=53069">http://www.baghdadtimes.net/Arabic/index.php?sid=53069</a><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a 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href="mailto:PoliticalForum@googlegroups.com">PoliticalForum@googlegroups.com</a>, <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>References: <<a href="mailto:6b278a150909251423o12fb4055k6b0c7971be75d8d1@mail.gmail.com">6b278a150909251423o12fb4055k6b0c7971be75d8d1@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><br>A True Thinker and Philosopher<p>May His Tribe Prosper<p>Nizar Qabbani<p><br>Born: 21 March 1923<br>Damascus, Syria<br>Died: 30 April 1998<br>London, England<p><br>Occupation: Diplomat, Poet, Writer, Publisher<br>Nationality: Syrian<p><br>Would You Permit Me?<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> نزار قباني<br>Nizar Kabbani<br> <br> في بلاد يغتال فيها المفكرون، ويكفر الكاتب<br>وتحرق الكتب، في مجتمعات ترفض الآخر، وتفرض الصمت على الافواه والحجر على <br>الافكار، <br>وتكفر اي سؤال، كان لابد ان استأذنكم ان تسمحوا لي..<br>In a country where thinkers are assassinated, and writers are considered <br>infidels and books are burnt, in societies that refuse the other, and <br>force silence on mouths and thoughts forbidden, and to question is a <br>sin, I must beg your pardon, would you permit me?<br>فهل تسمحون لي<br>ان اربي اطفالي كما اريد، وألا تملوا علي<br>اهواءكم واوامركم؟<br>Would you permit me to bring up my children as I want, and not to <br>dictate on me your whims and orders?<br>· <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اعلم اطفالي ان الدين لله اولا، وليس<br>للمشايخ والفقهاء والناس؟<br>Would you permit me to teach my children that the religion is first to <br>God, and not for religious leaders or scholars or people?<br> · <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اعلم صغيرتي ان الدين هو اخلاق وأدب وتهذيب<br>وامانة وصدق، قبل ان اعلمها بأي قدم تدخل الحمام وبأي يد<p>تأكل<p><br>Would you permit me to teach my little one that religion is about good <br>manners, good behaviour, good conduct, honesty and truthfulness, before <br>I teach her with which foot to enter the bathroom or with which hand she <br>should eat?<br>· <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اعلم ابنتي ان الله محبة، وانها تستطيع ان<br>تحاوره وتسأله ما تشاء، بعيدا عن تعاليم أي أحد؟<br>Would you permit me to teach my daughter that God is about love, and she <br>can dialogue with Him and ask Him anything she wants, far away from the <br>teachings of anyone?<br>· <br>هل تسمحون لي الا اذكر عذاب القبر لاولادي،<br>الذين لم يعرفوا ما هو الموت بعد؟<br>Would you permit me not to mention the torture of the grave to my <br>children, who do not know about death yet?<br>< STRONG> · <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اعلم ابنتي اصول الدين وادبه واخلاقه، قبل <br>ان افرض عليها الحجاب؟ <br>Would you permit me to teach my daughter the tenets of the religion and <br>its culture and manners, before I force on her the 'Hijab' (the veil)?<br>· <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اقول لابني الشاب ان ايذاء الناس وتحقيرهم<br>لجنسيتهم ولونهم ودينهم، هو ذنب كبير عند الله؟<br>Would you permit me to tell my young son that hurting people and <br>degrading them because of their nationality, colour or religion, is <br>considered a big sin by God?<br>· <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اقول لابنتي ان مراجعة دروسها والاهتمام بتعليمها<br>انفع واهم عند الله من حفظ آيات القرآن عن ظهر قلب دون تدبر معانيها؟<br>Would you permit me to tell my daughter to revising her homework and <br>paying attention to her learning is considered by God as more useful and <br>important than learning by heart Ayahs from the Quran without knowing <br>their meaning?<br>· <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اعلم ابني ان الاقتداء بالرسول الكريم يبدأ<br>بنزاهته وامانته وصدقه، قبل لحيته وقصر ثوبه؟<br>Would you permit me to teach my son that following the footsteps of the <br>Honourable Prophet begins with his honesty, loyalty and truthfulness, <br>before his beard or how short his thobe (long shirt/dress) is?<br> · <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اقول ل7بنتي ان صديقتها المسيحية ليست<br>كافرة، والا تبكي خوفا عليها من دخول النار؟ <br>Would you permit me to tell my daughter that her Christian friend is not <br>an infidel, and ask her not to cry fearing her friend will go to Hell?<br> · <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اجاهر، ان الله لم يوكل احدا في الارض بعد الرسول لان يتحدث باسمه<br>ولم يخول احدا بمنح 'صكوك الغفران' للناس؟<br>Would you permit me to argue, that God did not authorize anyone on earth <br>after the Prophet to speak in his name nor did he vest any powers in <br>anyone to issue 'deeds of forgiveness' to people?<br> · <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اقول، ان الله حرم قتل النفس البشرية، وان<br>من قتل نفسا بغير حق كأنما قتل الناس جميعا، وانه لا يحق لمسلم ان يروع <br>مسلما؟ <br>Would you permit me to say, that God has forbidden killing the human <br>spirit, and who kills wrongly a human being is as if he killed all human <br>kind, and no Moslem has the right to frighten another Moslem?<br> · <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>ان اعلم اولادي ان الله اكبر واعدل وارحم من<br>كل فقهاء الارض مجتمعين؟ وان مقاييسه تختلف عن مقاييس المتاجرين بالدين، وان<br>حساباته أحن وارحم؟<br>Would you permit me to teach my children that God is greater, more just, <br>and more merciful than all the (religious) scholars on earth combined? <br>And that his standards are different from the standards of those trading <br>the religion, and that his accountability is kinder and more merciful?<br> <br> <br>هل تسمحون لي<br>Would you permit me?<br> <br>نزار قباني<br>Nizar Kabbani<p> <p><p><br>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a 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us can identify with this.<p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p>* "I'm Tired" by Robert A. Hall<p> <p> I'll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when<br>jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but<br>job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some<br>health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick<br>in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job<br>or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no<br>retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.<p> <p> I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth<br>around" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the<br>government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it<br>to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.<p> <p> I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to<br>"keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm<br>willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of<br>our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the<br>leftwing Congress critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community<br>Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them-with their own money.<p> <p> I'm tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing<br>millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who<br>live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years,<br>if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and<br>women's rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the<br>press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay<br>people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won't<br>multiculturalism be beautiful?<p> <p> I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace,"<br>when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their<br>sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor;" of Muslims rioting<br>over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because<br>they aren't "believers;" of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims<br>stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery;" of Muslims mutilating<br>the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur`an<br>and Shari`a law tells them to.<p> <p> I believe a man should be judged by the content of his<br>character, not by the color of his skin. I'm tired of being told that "race<br>doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of President Obama, when it's all<br>that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and<br>graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government<br>contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and<br>fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the<br>appointment of US Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we<br>have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the<br>desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the<br>black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and<br>the individual and less in an all-knowing government.<p> <p> I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and<br>inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost,<br>were wonderful. That thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of<br>presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to<br>control weight and stress. That picked over every line of Bush's military<br>records, but never demanded that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with<br>two years as governor for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama<br>with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.<p> <p> Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or<br>switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the<br>media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.<p> <p> I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other<br>cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and<br>madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group<br>is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia<br>to teach love and tolerance.<p> <p> I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to<br>fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live<br>in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We<br>also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live.<br>Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're 95% greener<br>than Gore, you're green enough.<p> <p> I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease,<br>and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did<br>a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up<br>their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people<br>choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And<br>I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I<br>tell them I never tried marijuana.<p> <p> I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented<br>workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare<br>or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"?<br>And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it's been<br>a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm<br>willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person who can speak<br>English, doesn't have a criminal record, and who is self-supporting without<br>family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.<br>Those are the citizens we need.<p> <p> I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never<br>wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their<br>entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our<br>military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make<br>split-second d ecisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth<br>better people then themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our<br>troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that<br>were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years-and still are? Not<br>even close.<p> <p> So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the<br>humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo,<br>and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims<br>who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who<br>tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the<br>Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found<br>in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia,<br>because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and<br>American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for<br>help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.<p> <p> I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner<br>on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the<br>papers-bums are bi-partisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need<br>bi-partisanship. I live in Illinois, where the " Illinois Combine" of<br>Democrats and Republicans has worked together harmoniously to <p> loot the public for 20 years. And I notice that the tax<br>cheats in Obama's cabinet are bi-partisan as well.<p> <p> I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and<br>politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes<br>or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was<br>getting caught. <p> <p> I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or<br>poor.<p> <p> Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with<br>air-conditioned homes, color TVs, and two cars called poor. The majority of<br>Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The<br>poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the<br>dollars flowing.<p> <p> I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for<br>their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or<br>discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.<p> <p> Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because,<br>mostly, I'm not going to get to see the world these people are making. I'm<br>just sorry for my granddaughter.<p> <p> Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five<br>terms in the Massachusetts state senate. <p> He blogs at **www.tartanmarine.blogspot**..com***<p><p>__._,_.___<p><br>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-54187714620554819122009-08-14T22:37:00.001-05:002009-08-14T22:37:57.597-05:00[Fwd: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare<br>Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:59:57 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <02bc01ca1c1c$bf0617b0$3d124710$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908131316n145b13baw49ff78a56a64aed0@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908131316n145b13baw49ff78a56a64aed0@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html?mod=djemEditorialPage">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html?mod=djemEditorialPage</a><p><p> * OPINION<br> * AUGUST 11, 2009, 7:30 P.M. ET<p>The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare<br>Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.<p> By JOHN MACKEY<p>"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out<br>of other people's money."<p>—Margaret Thatcher<p>With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more<br>in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and<br>Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches<br>over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are<br>rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply<br>not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new<br>taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.<p>While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country<br>needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds<br>of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer<br>to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should<br>be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward<br>less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight<br>reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:<p>• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible<br>health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The<br>combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution<br>that could solve many of our health-care problems. For example, Whole<br>Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work<br>30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our<br>high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per<br>year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees'<br>Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health<br>and wellness.<p>Money not spent in one year rolls over to the next and grows over time.<br>Our team members therefore spend their own health-care dollars until the<br>annual deductible is covered (about $2,500) and the insurance plan kicks<br>in. This creates incentives to spend the first $2,500 more carefully.<br>Our plan's costs are much lower than typical health insurance, while<br>providing a very high degree of worker satisfaction.<p>• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and<br>individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now<br>employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but<br>individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.<p>• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing<br>across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase<br>health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should<br>be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be<br>portable.<p>• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must<br>cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by<br>billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be<br>determined by individual customer preferences and not through<br>special-interest lobbying.<p>• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to<br>pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These<br>costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.<p>• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care<br>treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last<br>doctor's visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or<br>services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?<p>• Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that<br>Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create<br>greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.<p>• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a<br>voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who<br>have no insurance and aren't covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State<br>Children's Health Insurance Program.<p>Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an<br>intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors,<br>medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are<br>sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to<br>health care than they have to food or shelter?<p>Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and<br>shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial<br>market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of<br>Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to<br>health care, food or shelter. That's because there isn't any. This<br>"right" has never existed in America<p>Even in countries like Canada and the U.K., there is no intrinsic right<br>to health care. Rather, citizens in these countries are told by<br>government bureaucrats what health-care treatments they are eligible to<br>receive and when they can receive them. All countries with socialized<br>medicine ration health care by forcing their citizens to wait in lines<br>to receive scarce treatments.<p>Although Canada has a population smaller than California, 830,000<br>Canadians are currently waiting to be admitted to a hospital or to get<br>treatment, according to a report last month in Investor's Business<br>Daily. In England, the waiting list is 1.8 million.<p>At Whole Foods we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they<br>most want the company to fund. Our Canadian and British employees<br>express their benefit preferences very clearly—they want supplemental<br>health-care dollars that they can control and spend themselves without<br>permission from their governments. Why would they want such additional<br>health-care benefit dollars if they already have an "intrinsic right to<br>health care"? The answer is clear—no such right truly exists in either<br>Canada or the U.K.—or in any other country.<p>Rather than increase government spending and control, we need to address<br>the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that<br>every American adult is responsible for his or her own health.<p>Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted:<br>two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most<br>of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all<br>health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and<br>obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not<br>smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.<p>Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of<br>foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent<br>and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are<br>expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives<br>until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.<p>Health-care reform is very important. Whatever reforms are enacted it is<br>essential that they be financially responsible, and that we have the<br>freedom to choose doctors and the health-care services that best suit<br>our own unique set of lifestyle choices. We are all responsible for our<br>own lives and our own health. We should take that responsibility very<br>seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will<br>protect our health. Doing so will enrich our lives and will help create<br>a vibrant and sustainable American society.<p>Mr. Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc.<p><p><p><p><p><p><p><br>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-77485975108955305312009-08-14T22:36:00.001-05:002009-08-14T22:36:22.135-05:00[Fwd: Technology Report: Microsoft prices Zune HD below iPod]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Technology Report: Microsoft prices Zune HD below iPod<br>Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:58:35 -0400<br>From: Reuters.com <<a href="mailto:mail@nl.reuters.com">mail@nl.reuters.com</a>><br>Reply-To: Reuters.com <<a href="mailto:mailU1DEBF.2995618@nl.reuters.com">mailU1DEBF.2995618@nl.reuters.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:nimerjaber1@gmail.com">nimerjaber1@gmail.com</a><p><p>On your mobile? Click here <br><<a href="http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/KEMNWY/YT/h?a=4DNB4&b=1832X9&c=D1HSE&d=U1DEBF&e=1">http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/KEMNWY/YT/h?a=4DNB4&b=1832X9&c=D1HSE&d=U1DEBF&e=1</a>> <br>to view this email in text.<br>If you are having trouble viewing this email or would like to view it in <br>your web browser, CLICK HERE <br><<a href="http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/D40EA5/YT/h?a=4DNB4&b=1832X9&c=D1HSE&d=U1DEBF">http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/D40EA5/YT/h?a=4DNB4&b=1832X9&c=D1HSE&d=U1DEBF</a>><br>Reuters <<a href="http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/OJX1IJ/YT/h">http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/OJX1IJ/YT/h</a>><p> <br>*Good afternoon Nimer,* THU 13 Aug 2009 <p><br> today's headlines<p>Microsoft prices Zune HD below iPod <br><<a href="http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/C5OI3M/YT/h">http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/C5OI3M/YT/h</a>><br>Court slaps ban on some Microsoft Word sales <br><<a href="http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/NSWU6I/YT/h">http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/NSWU6I/YT/h</a>><br>Asian Web connections set to resume by end of Thursday <br><<a href="http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/26PZDG/YT/h">http://links.reuters.com/r/4DNB4/QCI9P/PF5XUQ/6QNVV/26PZDG/YT/h</a>><br>Looking for a job? 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href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: Politics & Current Events <<a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a>><p><p>There is some concern that a government run 'insurance health care'<br>system will create euthanasia...?<p>Its all about integrity....! No matter the system.<p>If we can pay a doctor to kill healthy unborn children, when some<br>other person or couple will adopt the same, then it is easy to see<br>that a similar doctor will easily kill or terminate or euthanize an<br>elderly patient, since the cost savings to the insurance company and<br>or the government would be substantial.<p>We already have selective female abortions in North America based on<br>sex (we don't hear about it, but that does not mean it does not<br>happen...)<p>Each system has its merits and disadvantages, but a system that has<br>insurance without appropriate controls will motivate 'them' to<br>terminate certain lives rather than treat them.<p>Having said, that let us look to Italy, a true socialized health care<br>system where doctors are paid a flat annual fee PER PATIENT....here<br>there is some incentive to keep you alive and healthy...the American<br>health care system creates an inverse relationship between your health<br>and the income of most all doctors.<p>Oh and by the way don't look to Canada for the best system, even<br>though it is universal, doctors have retained their private business<br>component, and they are motivated to create volume of visits,<br>referrals and testings...<p>Look to Italy...<p>Caesar J. B. Squitti<br><a href="http://www.caesarsquitti.com">http://www.caesarsquitti.com</a><br>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-27832130192620555902009-08-14T22:22:00.000-05:002009-08-14T22:23:02.989-05:00[Fwd: Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical members of Congress (Updated 2x) < RBO]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical members of Congress <br>(Updated 2x) < RBO<br>Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:58:02 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <045e01ca1b67$9e556b20$db004160$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908121353p7823d538yfdd79fc668c4bf8a@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908121353p7823d538yfdd79fc668c4bf8a@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><p><p>* *<p>*<a href="http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/obama-and-the-marxist-socialist-radical-members-of-congress/*">http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/obama-and-the-marxist-socialist-radical-members-of-congress/*</a><p>* *<p>* *<p><br> Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical members of Congress (Updated 2x)<p>*October 22, 2008 by Procrustes <br><<a href="http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/author/bmerry7/">http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/author/bmerry7/</a>> *<p>*^See James Simpson's Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured <br>Crisis <br><<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html">http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html</a>> <br>at American Thinker, 09/28/08. **<br><<a href="http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/acorn-network.jpg">http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/acorn-network.jpg</a>>Ever <br>heard of the House Progressive Caucus? You won't find it on James <br>Simpson's chart but a lot of the connections you will read about in this <br>article are.*<p>*The House Progressive Caucus (HPC) is just another name for the <br>**Progressive Caucus (Democratic) <br><<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497">http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497</a>>**, <br>which, according to Discover the Networks, is a "radical caucus of <br>nearly six-dozen members of the House of Representatives. Until 1999, <br>the HPC "worked in open partnership" with **Democratic Socialists of <br>America <br><<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428">http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428</a>>**, the <br>"largest Socialist organization in the U.S."***<p>*Update: According to the January/February 1999 issue <br><<a href="http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng56.html#anchor1041720">http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng56.html#anchor1041720</a>> of DSA's <br>New Ground, DSA "helped to organize" the Caucus. *<p>*The March 29, 1999, issue of The New American describes <br><<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm</a>> <br>the House Progressive Caucus (HPC) as*<p> *… a consortium of radical congressional collectivists whose<br> stunning success in November remains one of the most under-reported<br> stories of the election. Fifty-five of the 58 members on last year's<br> HPC roster ran for re-election; every one of them was re-elected.*<p> *This success occurred in spite of the fact that there is a<br> symbiotic relationship between the HPC and the Democratic Socialists<br> of America (DSA) — a relationship that has been ignored by the major<br> media. The DSA is the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist<br> International, the world's oldest and largest hodgepodge of<br> socialist, social democratic, and labour parties. The Socialist<br> International proudly boasts that it is the successor to the<br> so-called "First International" of Karl Marx, founded in London in<br> 1864.*<p>*HPC/DSA "goals"***<p>*The New American informs <br><<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm</a>>:*<p>* <<a href="http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsa-logo3.jpg">http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsa-logo3.jpg</a>>*<p> *According to one DSA position paper, its collectivist agenda<br> includes "massive redistribution of income from corporations and the<br> wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the public sector"; "a<br> massive shift of public resources from the military … to civilian<br> uses"; and "expanding [Medicare] eligibility to people of all ages<br> and income regardless of health or employment status" so that "the<br> federal government can serve as the single payer" for the nation's<br> health care. After all, the DSA contends, "Free markets or private<br> charity cannot provide adequate public goods and services. [...]*<p>*The HPC's list of legislative goals includes "a more progressive tax <br>system" (Karl Marx would be pleased), deep cuts in the military budget, <br>and a "cradle-to-grave" single-payer health care plan. In the following <br>pages we survey a rogues' gallery of HPC congressmen and others with a <br>similar ideological bent.*<p>*The Wikipedia article <br><<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus</a>> on the <br>Congressional Progressive Caucus says:*<p> *According to their website, the CPC advocates "universal access to<br> affordable, high quality healthcare," fair trade agreements, living<br> wage laws, the right of all workers to organize into labor unions<br> and engage in strike actions and collective bargaining, the<br> abolition of significant portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the<br> legalization of gay marriage, strict campaign finance reform laws, a<br> complete pullout from the war in Iraq, a crackdown on free trade and<br> corporate welfare, an increase in income tax on the wealthy, tax<br> cuts for the poor, and an increase in social welfare spending by the<br> federal government.*<p>*Anything sounding familiar? It should. We've certainly been hearing a <br>lot of sound bytes on the evening news and in political TV and radio ads <br>that sound just .. like .. this:*<p> * *redistribution of wealth? –* ***–** *<br> * *increase income tax on wealthy? – **–** *<br> * *tax cuts for the poor? – **– */*Note: 40% of Americans pay zero<br> taxes now.*/* *<br> * *more progressive tax system? – **–** *<br> * *crackdown on corporate welfare? – **–** *<br> * *increased social welfare spending? – **–** *<br> * *"cradle-to-grave" health care? – **– ***<br> * *complete pullout from Iraq? –** –** *<br> * *cuts in military budget? – **–** *<p>*Must read**: John Batchelor's October 22, 2008, article Keynes Again, <br>which will put all of these goals in a chilling perspective.*<p>*CPC founding***<p>*The New American continues <br><<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm</a>>:*<p> *The House Progressive Caucus was founded in 1992 by Representatives<br> Bernard Sanders (Independent-VT), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Lane Evans<br> (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and then-Congressman Ron Dellums (D-CA).*<p> *Although Congressman Sanders, who currently chairs the HPC's<br> executive committee, is a self-avowed socialist, he is one of the<br> group's more "moderate" members. During the previous Congress, 51 of<br> his HPC colleagues scored lower than he did on this magazine's<br> "Conservative Index" voting guide!*<p>*Sanders, DeFazio, and Waters are members of what is now called the <br>Congressional Progressive Congress.*<p>*DSA hosted CPC***<p>* <br><<a href="http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsa-new2.jpg">http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsa-new2.jpg</a>>Would <br>it surprise you to know that the Democratic Socialists of America hosted <br>the CPC on its website?*<p>*For this latter piece of information we turn to a May 24, 2008, post <br><<a href="http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2008/05/traitors_among_us_socialists_c.html">http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2008/05/traitors_among_us_socialists_c.html</a>> <br>at Theodore's World blog:*<p> *Until 1999, DSA hosted the website of the Progressive Caucus.<br> Following a subsequent expose of the link between the two entities,<br> the Progressive Caucus established its own website<br> <<a href="http://cpc.lee.house.gov/index.cfm?ContentID=166&ParentID=0&SectionID=4&SectionTree=4&lnk=b&ItemID=164">http://cpc.lee.house.gov/index.cfm?ContentID=166&ParentID=0&SectionID=4&SectionTree=4&lnk=b&ItemID=164</a>><br> under the auspices of Congress. But DSA and the Progressive Caucus<br> remain intimately linked. All 58 Progressive Caucus members also<br> belong to DSA.*<p>*The CPC's "own website" for the current 71-member CPC is an extension <br>of that maintained for its co-chairwoman, Rep. Barbara Lee (Calif.) — <br>cpc.lee.house <<a href="http://cpc.lee.house.gov/">http://cpc.lee.house.gov/</a>>. The other CPC co-chairwoman <br>is fellow Californian, Rep. Lynn Woolsey.*<p>*The CPC-DSA relationship was confirmed by Trevor Loudon in his November <br>12, 2006, article The Socialists Behind the "Progressive Caucus" <br><<a href="http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2006/11/socialists-behind-progressive-caucus.html">http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2006/11/socialists-behind-progressive-caucus.html</a>>:*<p> *As the Congressional Progressive Caucus is the most powerful and<br> radical group in the new US Congress, it might be useful to find out<br> who is behind the organisation.*<p> *The most obvious backers of the CPC are the Democratic Socialists<br> of America (DSA).*<p>*Loudon cited the Wikipedia article on the DSA <br><<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America</a>>:*<p> *During the 1990s, DSA began looking to the Religious Right's<br> activism within the Republican Party as a model for how the Left<br> could gain a greater foothold within the Democratic Party…*<p> *The result was the "Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of 65<br> Democratic legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives anchored<br> by US Rep. Bernie Sanders, a DSA sympathizer….DSA's website included<br> commentary supportive of the legislative caucus throughout much of<br> the late 1990s.*<p>*CPC supporters***<p>*The Wikipedia article <br><<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus</a>> on the <br>CPC also provides the names of a number of organizations which support <br>the CPC.*<p>*Included in the "array of national progressive organizations" that <br>"work to support the efforts of the caucus" we find a few that top the <br>list.*<p> * *Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) *<br> * *The Nation magazine *<br> * *Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) *<p>/*See next page for Institute for Policy Studies*/**<p>*Pages: 1 2 <br><<a 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href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/the-nation/">http://en.wordpress.com/tag/the-nation/</a>>, The Real Barack Obama <br><<a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/the-real-barack-obama/">http://en.wordpress.com/tag/the-real-barack-obama/</a>>, Tom Hayden <br><<a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/tom-hayden/">http://en.wordpress.com/tag/tom-hayden/</a>>, Trevor Loudon <br><<a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/trevor-loudon/">http://en.wordpress.com/tag/trevor-loudon/</a>>, William Ayers <br><<a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/william-ayers/">http://en.wordpress.com/tag/william-ayers/</a>> | 14 Comments*<p><br> 14 Responses<p>*1. **on October 22, 2008 at 11:39 am <br><<a href="http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/obama-and-the-marxist-socialist-radical-members-of-congress/#comment-4328">http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/obama-and-the-marxist-socialist-radical-members-of-congress/#comment-4328</a>> <br>mcnorman <<a href="http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/">http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/</a>>*<p>*Great piece. The visual will help people understand the complexity of <br>Obama's web.*<p>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-26491512931329255852009-08-12T19:34:00.001-05:002009-08-12T19:34:51.865-05:00[Fwd: Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear<br>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:05:43 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <02dc01ca1b5d$bd02b460$37081d20$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908121426o3dfccfedoa84787eba7d4c566@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908121426o3dfccfedoa84787eba7d4c566@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><p><p> <p>*Government Domination Bills--ObamaCare and Cap 'N Tax*<p>*Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear*<p> <p>Sher Zieve Bio <br><<a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13629/Sher%20Zieve/">http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13629/Sher%20Zieve/</a>><p>Email Article <br><mailto:?subject=Canadafreepress.Com:%20Obama%20Rent-A-Thug%20Program%20moves%20into%20High%20Gear&body=<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13629">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13629</a>><p>*Photo Gallery*<p><p> /By/ /Sher Zieve/ Tuesday, August 11, 2009<p><p>As Obama already had SEIU (Service Employees International Union) in his <br>back pocket, it was easy for him to have his union management friends <br>pay overtime to SEIU rent-a-thugs at several recent Democrat Town Hall <br>meetings. Interestingly, as appears on one of the videos of the <br>ObamaThugs referenced below, after one of the SEIU purple-shirted thugs <br>beats Ned Gladney the thug pretends he has been injured. Note: This is <br>part of the Obama and Alinsky Chicago Way--attack another unmercifully <br>then claim to be the real victim. <p>Obama has his union Rent-A-Thug program in place to attack and silence <br>We-the-People who do not want the slavery, loss of freedoms and liberty <br>and the increasingly likely imprisonment (GoArmy Internment/Resettlement <br>Specialist Ads are still running) Obama is attempting to force upon us. <br>Note: For those of you who were not aware, Tyranny is now the form of <br>government in our land. <p>Therefore, in order to further suppress and oppress the American people, <br>Obama is now advertising nationally on Craig's List for paid <br>pro-ObamaCare protesters. The payment portion of the Ad (see link <br>below) states: "Earn $350-500 per week. To apply for a job, visit our <br>website or call Chris at (916) 455-5000." Obama has now thrown down the <br>gauntlet at the feet of the American people and is telling us, in <br>extraordinarily certain terms, 'My police force is coming to get you! <br>Comply--or else'! <p>We-the-People who do NOT want to be forced to plan our own deaths (see <br>HR 3200 Section 1233) by having to comply with Mandatory End of Life <br>Consultation (for the "elderly" and the disabled) are now targeted as <br>"terrorists" and "Nazis" by Obama and his minions. We-the-People who do <br>not want to be forced to give the government access to our private bank <br>accounts (see Page 59 "electronic finds transfers") are labeled <br>"right-wing extremists' by Obama and his growing group of paid <br>Czar-thugs. We-the-People who do NOT want a forced single-payer plan <br>(see Page 16--after ObamaCare is passed private insurance is outlawed) <br>are told to SHUT UP! And we who do not want to have the government to <br>bleed us dry and take over the raising of our children (see Page 838) <br>are to be silenced by Obama and his thugs at any and all costs. <p>Obama has already shown that he have his "Brown and now Purple shirts" <br>beat us up if we dare to voice our opposition to destroying us. His new <br>scapegoat du jour is the Health Insurance companies. And now the tyrant <br>has also included us--the American people. Note: Pharmaceutical <br>companies are--for the moment--safe as they made a back-door deal with <br>Obama.<p>But, there may be some hope on the horizon. Now, whenever and wherever <br>Obama speaks, ONLY those who support him (apparently most or all of <br>these are paid--our tax dollars at work!) are allowed. That's <br>desperation, folks. But, with intense desperation comes equally intense <br>desperate measures. There are growing rumors that 'something big' is <br>being planned by Obama adherents to blame and, therefore, shut the <br>American people up--once and for all--so that the dictator will be able <br>to fully implement his Socio-fascist government. <p>However, We-the-People have become more and more well-read and <br>articulate on the Government Domination Bills--ObamaCare and Cap 'N <br>Tax. We are challenging the progressively more and more corrupt and <br>power-mad overseers--with intelligence and logic. What a tragedy that <br>the ones we elected to govern (NOT to rule) are not equally well-informed.<p>Every time one of the elected officials lies (including dear <br>Dictator-in-Chief Obama), we will counter them with facts--page number <br>and line--and the truth! With God's blessing and through our continued <br>efforts we will win and oust the tyrant--and ALL of the tyrants--from <br>office. After decades of increasing progressivism and creeping <br>tyranny--that is now manifesting itself in almost total power over <br>We-the-People--the time has finally come for Americans to take their <br>country back. And a growing number of us are actually doing it! Keep <br>it up and remember Ghandi's famous statement: "First they ignore you, <br>then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."<p>Obama Rent-A-Thug Ads for ObamaCare <br><<a href="http://sacramento.craigslist.org/etc/1310895349.html">http://sacramento.craigslist.org/etc/1310895349.html</a>>:<br>ObamaThugs Attack Black Conservative (Video) <br><<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpfU_AC7Ls">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpfU_AC7Ls</a>>:<br>Internment/Resettlement Specialists Ad <br><<a href="http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292">http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292</a>>:<br>Obama's Secret Deal with the Drug Makers <br><<a href="http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/06/obamas-secret-deal-with-the-drugmakers/">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/06/obamas-secret-deal-with-the-drugmakers/</a>>: <p> <p>(1) *Reader Feedback* <br><<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/obama-rent-a-thug-program-moves-into-high-gear/">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/obama-rent-a-thug-program-moves-into-high-gear/</a>> <br>| Subscribe <br><<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/eesystem/index.php/site/CFP-subscriptions/">http://www.canadafreepress.com/eesystem/index.php/site/CFP-subscriptions/</a>> <p> <p>*Sher Zieve* Most recent columns <br><<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13629/Sher%20Zieve/">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13629/Sher%20Zieve/</a>><p>Sher Zieve is an author, political commentator, and staff writer for The <br>New Media Alliance. Zieve's op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple <br>internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns <br>have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Boston Star, <br>Massachusetts Sun, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, <br>and on multiple university websites. Ms. Zieve is currently working on <br>her first political book: "The Liberal's Guide To Conservatives. <br><<a href="http://www.augustagency.com/authors.htm">http://www.augustagency.com/authors.htm</a>>" Sher can be reached at <br><a href="mailto:Sher_Zieve@yahoo.com">Sher_Zieve@yahoo.com</a> <br><mailto:<a href="mailto:Sher_Zieve@yahoo.com">Sher_Zieve@yahoo.com</a>?bcc=<a href="mailto:letters@canadafreepress.com">letters@canadafreepress.com</a>><p> <p> <p> <p>/Printed from: //<a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13629/">http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13629/</a><p>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-47539193811958201522009-08-12T15:48:00.001-05:002009-08-12T15:48:35.495-05:00[Fwd: Understanding Islam’s Threat to U.S. Vital]Here's another idiot that knows nothing about religion trying to tell us <br>who Islam is at war with. Beautiful!!<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Understanding Islam's Threat to U.S. Vital<br>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:33:55 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <018801ca1a80$7f1db5b0$7d592110$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908111248x507d900dk6b17f5ad93e614e4@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908111248x507d900dk6b17f5ad93e614e4@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><br>*Newsmax.com*<p><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/frank_gaffney/islam_obama_shariah/2009/08/10/246009.html">http://www.newsmax.com/frank_gaffney/islam_obama_shariah/2009/08/10/246009.html</a><p>*Understanding Islams Threat to U.S. Vital*<p>Monday, August 10, 2009 1:29 PM<p> <p>*By:* Frank Gaffney Jr. <p>John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and <br>counterterrorism, last week approvingly recalled a key point in the <br>speech Barack Obama delivered in Cairo in June: "America is not and <br>never will be at war with Islam." Unfortunately, that statement ignores <br>the fact that the decision as to whether the United States is at war <br>with anybody is not entirely up to our leadership or people. The real <br>question is: Is Islam' at war with us?<p>It is certainly true that hundreds of millions of Muslims the world over <br>are not seeking to wage war against the U.S. or other non-Muslim states. <br>America has, as Brennan noted in his remarks before the Center for <br>Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Aug. 6, a powerful <br>interest in not making all those who practice Islam into our enemies.<p>Yet, it would be a grave mistake to construe the problem we face as <br>Brennan proceeded to do in his speech at CSIS: "We are at war with <br>al-Qaida which attacked us on 9/11 and killed 3,000 people. We are at <br>war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al-Qaida's <br>murderous agenda." He described that agenda as seeking "to replace <br>sovereign nations with a global caliphate."<p>Unfortunately, that is the stated goal of all those who adhere to what <br>authoritative Islam calls Shariah a number that includes many millions <br>of people the world over. Brennan's speech made no reference to this <br>wellspring of jihadism.<p>Of course, not all those who embrace Shariah are prepared to use terror <br>against us. Shariah requires though that if its adherents do not <br>actually engage in violent jihad, they must support it through financial <br>or other means. After all, according to Shariah, the purpose of jihad is <br>to bring about the triumph of Islam over the entire world. Shariah <br>commands that the faithful must use violence where possible to advance <br>that objective, and non-violent means where not.<p>By failing to recognize this justification and catalyst for the threat <br>we face, Obama and his administration effectively foreclose the <br>possibility of countering it effectively. Worse yet, in their <br>understandable desire not to give gratuitous offense to Muslims, the <br>U.S. government has repeatedly deferred to those who are most easily and <br>most vocally offended.<p>Specifically, the latter notably, the putatively non-violent, but <br>virulently Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and its myriad front <br>organizations have come to dictate what our officials can and cannot say <br>about the danger posed not just by al-Qaida and its "violent extremist <br>allies," but by all those who embrace the teachings, traditions, <br>institutions, and dictates of what authoritative Islam defines as <br>"mainstream": Shariah.<p>This practice effectively disenfranchises American Muslims who reject <br>this Shariah program precisely the sorts of people we should most want <br>to empower. Last week, I discussed this problem on our talk radio <br>program with someone who is trying to do something about it: Rep. Sue <br>Myrick of North Carolina.<p>*To hear Gaffneys interviews with Myrick and Sen. John Cornyn **go here <br>now* <<a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml">http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml</a>>*.*<p>As it happens, Myrick's district is not far from where Daniel Patrick <br>Boyd and other alleged "homegrown" jihadists were reportedly plotting <br>attacks abroad, and possibly here. What is more, the financial sector so <br>prominent in the Charlotte community she represents is also a prime <br>target of one of the most insidious forms of what author Robert Spencer <br>calls "stealth" jihad: Shariah-compliant finance.<p>Myrick, a co-founder of the House anti-terror caucus, recently convened <br>a meeting to afford "moderate" Muslims an opportunity to interact with <br>representatives of various federal law enforcement and other agencies <br>responsible for securing this country. According to Myrick, some of the <br>officials seemed to be discovering for the first time that there are <br>practitioners of Islam who do not embrace the seditious tenets of <br>Shariah and who were extremely concerned about the government's almost <br>exclusive reliance on those who do.<p>Fortunately, decisions in federal court in recent weeks may produce some <br>urgently needed policy course-corrections. Judge Laurence Zatkoff in the <br>Eastern District of Michigan recently cleared the way for accelerated <br>and wide-ranging discovery in connection with a suit brought by a <br>Michigan Iraq war veteran, Kevin Murray, against the Treasury Department <br>and Federal Reserve. Murray is challenging on constitutional separation <br>of church-and-state grounds the practice of a U.S. government-owned <br>company, the insurance conglomerate AIG, promoting Shariah-compliant <br>products.<p>It seems likely that the depositions that will now be taken by Murray's <br>legal team securities litigator and Shariah expert David Yerushalmi and <br>attorneys at the Thomas More Law Center, led by its director Richard <br>Thompson will shed important light on the federal government's <br>understanding of authoritative Islam's seditious program. It may also <br>reveal the extent to which U.S. officials have, with their failure to <br>comprehend the true nature of the threat we face, acted, either <br>wittingly or unwittingly, in ways that have enabled it to metastasize <br>further.<p>Whether through the revelations of this law suit or through the work of <br>influential legislators like Myrick, the time has come to recognize that <br>even if we insist we are not at war with Islam, the authorities of Islam <br>/are/ at war with us. Only by so doing can we connect with and empower <br>our natural allies in this war Muslims who want to enjoy liberty in a <br>Shariah-free America. And only by so doing, do we have a chance of <br>prevailing.<p> <p>*Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy, a <br>columnist for the Washington Times, and the host of the nationally <br>syndicated Secure Freedom Radio.*<p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p>*2009*<p>*Copyright 2009 ** All Rights Reserved*<p>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-77497148209084467162009-08-12T15:46:00.001-05:002009-08-12T15:46:42.492-05:00[Fwd: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting from Islam to Christianity]You're goig to try to tell me that it's only Islam that has these sort <br>of problems?<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting <br>from Islam to Christianity<br>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:30:53 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <03cd01ca1adb$5c160f30$14422d90$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908111740n621b24b5o1bfd09b373b1d622@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908111740n621b24b5o1bfd09b373b1d622@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><p><p>It IS Allah's law…Islamic law. No surprise there.<p><br>B<p> <p> <p><br> Florida: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting<br> from Islam to Christianity<p><a href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/florida-ohio-girl-convert-threatened/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/florida-ohio-girl-convert-threatened/</a><p>--- Muslim Teen Who Converted to Christianity Says Family Threatened to <br>Kill Her <<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538960,00.html">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538960,00.html</a>><p>--- Girl Says Family Wants To Kill Her For Being Christian <br><<a href="http://www.wftv.com/news/20349388/detail.html">http://www.wftv.com/news/20349388/detail.html</a>><br>--- "An Ohio girl ran away to Orlando because she said her family <br>threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, <br>said she was threatened by her family because she converted from Islam <br>to Christianity."<br>--- "'What did your father say to you?' WFTV reporter Mary Nguyen asked."<br>--- "'He said he would kill me!' replied Bary.<p>-- Channel 10TV reports <br><<a href="http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/08/11/story_teen.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=102">http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/08/11/story_teen.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=102</a>>: <br>"Rifqa Bary, 17, says her father, a Muslim, has threatened to kill her <br>because she converted to Christianity, 10TV's Cara Connelly reported."<p>Rifqa Bary, 17 - reports say she is threatened with death by her family <br>in Ohio for converting from Islam to Christianity <br><<a href="http://www.realcourage.org/?attachment_id=4985">http://www.realcourage.org/?attachment_id=4985</a>><p>Rifqa Bary, 17 - reports say she is threatened with death by her family <br>in Ohio for converting from Islam to Christianity<p>-- Florida: "Muslim Faith, Christianity Clash In Orlando Courtroom"<br><<a href="http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/8/10/muslim_faith_christianity_clash_in_orlando_courtroom.html">http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/8/10/muslim_faith_christianity_clash_in_orlando_courtroom.html</a>>-- <br>"An Ohio runaway teenager, Christianity and the Muslim religion met <br>head-on Monday during a custody dispute in an Orlando courtroom."<br>-- "The girl, 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, recently converted from her <br>family's faith to Christianity and she is worried about her family's <br>reaction to her change in faith"<br>-- "'She says her life is in danger and she could be killed in an honor <br>killing,' Rosa Gonzalez, the teen's lawyer, said after the hearing. <br>'Unfortunately it happens every day in the U.S.'"<br>-- "The teen, a non-citizen, told Lorenz she was fearful that her father <br>would send her to Sri Lanka."<p><<a href="http://www.wftv.com/news/20349388/detail.html">http://www.wftv.com/news/20349388/detail.html</a>><p> <p> <p>----------------------------------<p> <p>Responsible for Equality And Liberty organization (R.E.A.L.)<p>-- website:<p><a href="http://www.realcourage.org/">http://www.realcourage.org/</a><p>-- contact:<p><a href="mailto:realpublic@earthlink.net">realpublic@earthlink.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:realpublic@earthlink.net">realpublic@earthlink.net</a>><p> <p> <p>Additional Reports on War on Women can be found at:<p><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waronwomen/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waronwomen/</a><p><a href="http://www.realcourage.org/category/womens-rights/">http://www.realcourage.org/category/womens-rights/</a><p> <p><br>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-77457292281913523922009-08-12T15:45:00.001-05:002009-08-12T15:45:36.911-05:00[Fwd: Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!]<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilq0-hfrrfVV_II-iiIc6oSoudAx8fDwPXpp-RKznO9rvbcyFuyJ4moweIXamMdWP6Bf0EPDH3PhjeaFQgQ_kVta13usgtobH34Ub0DUb8YrkY-FvVzyyENH96LlOh3cOCObx-9FJFOcc/s1600-h/image001-736912.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilq0-hfrrfVV_II-iiIc6oSoudAx8fDwPXpp-RKznO9rvbcyFuyJ4moweIXamMdWP6Bf0EPDH3PhjeaFQgQ_kVta13usgtobH34Ub0DUb8YrkY-FvVzyyENH96LlOh3cOCObx-9FJFOcc/s320/image001-736912.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369181295652049810" /></a></p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!<br>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:28:51 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <<a href="mailto:940437.96760.qm@web59314.mail.re1.yahoo.com">940437.96760.qm@web59314.mail.re1.yahoo.com</a>> <br><<a href="mailto:8CBE99B97016235-848-35D@webmail-dh29.sysops.aol.com">8CBE99B97016235-848-35D@webmail-dh29.sysops.aol.com</a>> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908121323j3ce927a0g7297a8b9d437d898@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908121323j3ce927a0g7297a8b9d437d898@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><p> *Subject:* Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!<br> <br> Please read this, and listen to the interview. I don't know about<br> you, but I would rather die in God's time, than when the<br> government tells me that I have to. If this passes, we are in deep<br> trouble.<br> <p><br> May God help us.<p><br> <p><br> Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!<p><br> /Posted by ZZ Bachman.../<p> *Shocking information about directives on Pages 425-430 of the House<br> Health Care Bill.*<br> Listen to the details<br> <<a href="http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01">http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01</a>><br> regarding Pages 425-430 in the Health Care Bill focused on by Dr.<br> Betsy McCaughey, former New York Lt. Governor and Chairman of the<br> Committee To Reduce Infectious Deaths, in a Fred Thomson Show<br> interview. She has actually taken to time to READ the details in the<br> proposed House Bill of 1018 pages and was especially shocked at page<br> 425 – 430. *Page 430 mandates a "New Benefit" for patients and<br> families which is essentially counseling on how to cut your life<br> short.* The government over time will begin to shape these<br> "directives" and the conseling to reduce cost to the overall<br> system. Translation, encourage the removal of life sustaining<br> treatments. Counseling on foregoing antibiotics, nutrition and<br> hydration to promote the termination of life. Now the government<br> will be encouraging and counseling families, patients and doctors on<br> how to withhold treatment to decrease the cost of treating the<br> elderly...<br> Who will be paying for the health care bill ??? The elderly will pay<br> indirectly by have access to LESS care as it rationalizes the value<br> of life as the government regulates who should and should not get<br> medical procedures.<br> HEAR THE FRED THOMPSON / Betty McCaughey Interview<br> <<a href="http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01">http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01</a>><br> PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THIS OUT AND WRITE YOUR CONGRESSIONAL<br> REPRESENTATIVES!!! (Unless of course you agree with this approach!)<br> Let your friends know about this insanity unfolding in Washington<br> and get active an write your representatives. Help STOP THE INSANITY !!!<br> Additional FOLLOW UP Interview<br> <<a href="http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01">http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01</a>><br> with Betty McCaughey – Health Policy Expert and Patient Advocate<br> also Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths in Hospitals.<br> *DANGEROUS ASSAULT ON THE ELDERLY*<br> Comparative Effectiveness Research — code for denying Care based on<br> a patient's birth date is being promoted in the plan. This is all<br> about big brother government taking over your freedom of choice!!! <br> The amount of power the government will have over the physician and<br> nurse practitioner is mind boggling when you read it.<br> *On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social<br> Security, (will include all Senior Citizens and SSI people) will go<br> to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from<br> ways to end your suffering (and your life). Health care will be<br> denied based on age. 500 Billion will be cut from Seniors<br> healthcare. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut<br> health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first. Paying<br> for your own care will not be an option!! *<br> *Now, CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE<br> <<a href="https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml">https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml</a>> IN WASHINGTON!!<br> Tell them to read page 425 if they don't read anything else. Surely<br> some of them have parents.*<br> *Senate Contact Link<br> <<a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm">http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm</a>>*<br> The elderly are going to especially hit hard by a socialist scheme<br> to help pay for the health care plan. The modern day equivalent of<br> putting the elderly out on an ice flow to be eaten by polar bears<br> when they cannot contribute to the society and are increasing costs<br> to the community.<br> Page 425 shows just to what degree the radical left is willing to<br> push through in order to establish socialized health care in this<br> country.<br> See other articles at: <a href="http://defendyourhealthcare.us">defendyourhealthcare.us</a><br> <<a href="http://defendyourhealthcare.us/">http://defendyourhealthcare.us/</a>><br> See also pages 16 and 17 of House Bill which confirms you will be<br> forced to switch health plans to the one being pushed by the House<br> of Representatives according to Ms. McCaughey.<p> /Posted by ZZ Bachman.../<p><p><p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-69935261474561407492009-08-12T14:34:00.001-05:002009-08-12T14:34:14.323-05:00[Fwd: Don't Think That It Can't Happen Here Storm clouds of civil war began to darken Barack Obama's America?]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Don't Think That It Can't Happen Here Storm clouds of civil <br>war began to darken Barack Obama's America?<br>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:24:20 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <023e01ca1ac8$14f607d0$3ee21770$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908111753r28ab7b56o67ea2af22a055132@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908111753r28ab7b56o67ea2af22a055132@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><p><p> <p> <p> <p>*Storm clouds of civil war began to darken Barack Obama's America?*<p>*Don't Think That It Can't Happen Here*<p> <p><p> /By/ /Doug Patton/ Tuesday, August 11, 2009<p> <p>Many Americans believe that we will never succumb to the tyranny that <br>has plagued the rest of the world throughout most of human history. Far <br>too many of us today think, "It can't happen here."<p> <p>At the risk of appearing to don my tin foil hat and join the black <br>helicopter crowd, there are certain undeniable facts that keep rearing <br>their ugly heads. And as John Adams once said, "Facts are stubborn things."<p> <p>Fact: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has likened town hall protesters to <br>Nazis. They have also been called "an angry mob."<p> <p>Fact: One of those angry mobsters was a Michigan man who confronted his <br>congressman, John Dingell, about his concerns that the health care bill <br>will deny his disabled son the care he needs. Later, in the middle of <br>the night, someone showed up at this man's house and threatened him. <br>ACORN? Union thugs?<p> <p>Fact: Barack Obama, President of the United States, has said that those <br>same mobsters need to "get out of the way and not do so much talking" <br>while he "cleans up the mess they left me."<p>Fact: The White House is asking supporters to snitch on their neighbors <br>by e-mailing any information about people who oppose the Democrat health <br>care plan. (If you would like to save your neighbor the trouble and turn <br>yourself in, the address is <a href="mailto:flag@whitehouse.gov">flag@whitehouse.gov</a> <br><mailto:<a href="mailto:flag@whitehouse.gov">flag@whitehouse.gov</a>>.)<p> <p>Fact: And, saving the worst for last, the U.S. Army is now running an ad <br>at <a href="http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292">http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292</a> that reads as follows: <br>"Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily <br>responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement facility <br>or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide <br>rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners <br>within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections; <br>prepare written reports; and coordinate activities of <br>prisoners/internees and staff personnel."<p> <p>The ad goes on to spell out the duties of an I/R Specialist, with one <br>particularly chilling sentence leaping off the page: "Provide command <br>and control, staff planning, administration/logistical services, and <br>custody/control for the operation of detention facility or the operation <br>of *a displaced civilian (DC) resettlement facility."* (Emphasis mine.)<p> <p>During the dark days of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, Lutheran Pastor and <br>Theologian Martin Niemoller wrote these now-famous words: "First they <br>came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I did not speak <br>out. Then they came for the Socialists and Trade Unionists, but I was <br>not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, <br>but I was not Jewish, so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, <br>there was no one left to speak out for me."<p> <p>Fast forward three-quarters of a century: First they nationalized the <br>banks, and though I was not a banker, I spoke out, but no one listened. <br>Then they nationalized the automobile companies, and though I did not <br>work for them, I spoke out. Some people listened, but others took <br>advantage of "cash for clunkers." Then they nationalized the health care <br>system, and though I did not work in health care, I spoke out loud and <br>clear. And if they come to place me in an internment/resettlement camp <br>for speaking out, will there be anyone to speak out for me?<p> <p>If the storm clouds of civil war began to darken Barack Obama's America, <br>do you think for a moment he would not implement martial law? In one of <br>the most shameful chapters in American history since slavery, Franklin <br>Roosevelt imprisoned American citizens during World War II because they <br>were of Japanese descent. Don't ever think it can't happen here.<p> <p> <p> <p>*Doug Patton* Most recent columns <br><<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13621/Doug%20Patton/">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13621/Doug%20Patton/</a>><p>/Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political <br>speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected <br>officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are <br>published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web <br>sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a <br>senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at <br>//<a href="http://dougpatton@cox.net/">dougpatton@cox.net/</a> <br><mailto:<a href="mailto:dougpatton@cox.net">dougpatton@cox.net</a>/bcc=<a href="mailto:letters@canadafreepress.com">letters@canadafreepress.com</a>>/./<p> <p> <p> <p>/Printed from: //<a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13621/">http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13621/</a><p>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-22548924688723878472009-08-12T14:31:00.001-05:002009-08-12T14:31:54.116-05:00[Fwd: The Iron Curtain Descends upon America, and gets Ripped to Shreds]This article talks about Obama, but a similar article couldhave written <br>about Bush.<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: The Iron Curtain Descends upon America, and gets Ripped to Shreds<br>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:22:18 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <019501ca1ac4$ca51c870$5ef55950$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908112135x31d9facbxd38ad91d21315727@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908112135x31d9facbxd38ad91d21315727@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><br> <p><a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13631">http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13631</a><p> <p><br> <p>*A tyrant came to power. His goal is the destruction of the Republic, <br>and an end to freedom*<p>*The Iron Curtain Descends upon America, and gets Ripped to Shreds*<p> <p><br> <p> /By/ /George Potts Thompson/ Tuesday, August 11, 2009<p>It had to happen at some point in our history. A tyrant came to power. <br>His goal is the destruction of the Republic, and an end to freedom. His <br>banker handlers stole our wealth and many _Americans_ are _unemployed_ <br>and losing their homes.<p>Iraq and Afghan war vets are sleeping in _campgrounds_ since their <br>unemployment has run out and even MacDonalds and Walmart arent hiring<p>He took over the auto companies and now wants to nationalize <br>healthcare. This WILL eliminate private _health insurance_. I have <br>_family members_ who work for Bluecross who have told me if this Bill <br>passes that their careers are likely gone.<p>But something unexpected happened to the Annointed One, _Barack Hussein <br>Obama_, on his way to becoming Americas First Caliph. Something he <br>never expected. He WAS on a roll and never thought his runaway train to <br>a Marxist America would ever be slowed.<p>He was arrogant and has a hubris, which Ive never seen in a polititian. <br>He went on TV every day, in love with the sound of his own voice, <br>thinking he was still on a campaign. His malignant narcissism has no <br>boundaries so he continued to push even more radical policies on the <br>American people.<p>So he over-reached and never considered hed ever have any opposition. <br>This overreach is a titanic mistake, and one which may halt his agenda <br>once and for all.<p>He tried to take away the health insurance choices of older Americans <br>and deny them coverage under the guise of Reform, and he attempted to <br>rush it through without the Bill even being read. He turned a <br>demographic which used to be his reliable constituents, into his <br>disloyal, furious, opposition.<p>As a young woman just said to Arlen Specter: This is about the <br>systematic dismantling of this country.... and YOU have awakened a <br>Sleeping Giant. As FNCs Megyn Kelly observed, the topic of _healthcare_ <br>usually makes peoples eyes glaze over. No longer. Many of us wondered <br>what the tripwire would be.<p>It wasnt Cap & Trade, Taxes, or Gun Control. It was Healthcare. Obama <br>couldnt ram the Bill through the Senate..... and now Americans have read <br>it. And they are absolutely incensed. The polititians underestimated <br>the concern, and intelligence of the American people, and the issue has <br>blown up in their faces.<p>The Bill was crafted with the influence of Obamas Healthcare Czar Dr. <br>Emanuel Ezekiel MD, the brother of Rham Obamas _Chief of Staff_. This <br>guy is quite frankly frightening in his view of humanity. You are only <br>worthy of care if you are Contributing to the Communitarian. After youve <br>outlived your usefulness to the state.... go away and die. Ezekiel <br>Emmanuel and Joseph Mengele would have got on famously. For they both <br>apparently share a common view of mankind.<p>People only exist as a Resource to be used on behalf of The State. When <br>the resource is used up, it is discarded. Sarah Palin was correct in <br>her assessment of this monstrous Legislation. Its EVIL.<p>The Bill is not just bad law it is something the NAZIs might have <br>thought up. The very young, the disabled, and anyone over 50 will have <br>care rationed or withheld altogether. They will force this upon all <br>Americans with The Exception of the Political Class. <p>THEY will have the _Gold Plated_ healthcare plan like the Commisars and <br>Apparatchiks had in Soviet Russia. And WE wont even have the option of <br>paying for our own care with our own money, for that will be illegal.<p>I frankly never thought ANYTHING would get Americans off their couches <br>and begin to fight back. But they got up, got mad, and ARE willing to <br>fight back against tyranny. Obamas union thugs and minions were sent out <br>to beat up a Black Conservative in St. Louis, and threaten a man with a <br>disabled son with DEATH in Michigan, who dared take exception to this <br>nightmare Bill at a Town Hall.<p>The man with the disabled son told Megyn Kelly of FoxNews yesterday: <br>They delivered their message. He then said that they should take care as <br>he will use any force necessary, including LETHAL, to protect his wife <br>and child. SEIU? You think youre tough by anonymously hanging a death <br>threat on the mans door.?<p>Meet your WORST nightmare: A free American Citizen, ABSOLUTELY willing <br>to face prison if necessary to defend his wife, his child, and his <br>Liberty. <p>They brought down the Iron Curtain; are using Alinskys Rules for <br>Radicals as a playbook, and employing Chicago THUG tactics as the <br>stick. It isnt working. Its UNAMERICAN, and we see that.<p>Americans now recognize this for what it is, TYRANNY, and they are as <br>mad as a nest of wet hornets. They dont want any part of this Communist <br>Bill and its hideous implications for every free American. Obama wants <br>us to Shut Up. How dare that pompous, arrogant ##### tell a free people <br>to shut up.<p>We wont This isnt Indonesia or Kenya. and Obama is NOT king. We are not <br>going away. You cant shove your Statist BS on us any longer. Okay, it <br>wasnt taxes or _gun control_ that got everyone jumpin ugly. Fine. Ill <br>take my people waking up for ANY reason as a good thing..<p>The Sleeping Giant has awoken. The DC Elites pushed too far too fast and <br>it had the exact opposite effect. Their attempt to take _total control_ <br>has now met resistance. You in the political Class should be forwarned <br>and wary. You were sent by us to Washington to serve us, and you have <br>now stupidly got that backwards to where you believe we exist to SERVE YOU?<p>How did you ego maniacs in DC get so full of yourselves? Get a clue, <br>the days of you running roughshod over us, and stealing us blind have <br>ended. You in Washington are just too arrogant and foolish to realize <br>that. We are not your serfs, nor are we willing to be your ATM Machine <br>to fund our own enslavement.<p>Not your Union Thugs, nor your Federal Agencies, nor even your military <br>can force tyranny on the American People. Weve had enough.<p>The Giant that is the American Peoples Fighting Spirit will NEVER live <br>under your Marxist boot....EVER. ACORN, Alinsky and SEIU are no match <br>for the Spirit of Capt. Parker and the boys who stood their ground at <br>Concord Bridge and Lexington Green against another tyranny on April <br>19th, 1775.<p>That Spirit is alive again, and it is an absolute joy and inspiration to <br>again behold it.<p> <p>(0) *Reader Feedback* <br><<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/the-iron-curtain-descends-upon-america-and-gets-ripped-to-shreds/">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/the-iron-curtain-descends-upon-america-and-gets-ripped-to-shreds/</a>> <br>| Subscribe <br><<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/eesystem/index.php/site/CFP-subscriptions/">http://www.canadafreepress.com/eesystem/index.php/site/CFP-subscriptions/</a>> <p> <p>*George Potts Thompson* Most recent columns <br><<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13631/George%20Potts%20Thompson/">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13631/George%20Potts%20Thompson/</a>><p>George Potts Thompson can be reached at: <a href="mailto:letters@canadafreepress.com">letters@canadafreepress.com</a> <br><mailto:<a href="mailto:letters@canadafreepress.com">letters@canadafreepress.com</a>><p><p> <p>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-76412817517953046982009-08-12T14:28:00.000-05:002009-08-12T14:29:13.583-05:00[Fwd: TODAY IN PALESTINE HISTORY...]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: TODAY IN PALESTINE HISTORY...<br>Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:57:08 -0500<br>From: <a href="http://freepali.com">freepali.com</a> <<a href="mailto:info@freepali.com">info@freepali.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:info@freepali.com">info@freepali.com</a>><p><p>*TODAY IN PALESTINE HISTORY...***<p>*GENEVA** CONVENTION ESTABLISHED*<p> <p>*August 12, 1949*<p>A number of treaties that set the standards for international law for <br>humanitarian concerns; primarily the treatment of non-combatants and <br>prisoners of war. 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Shop <br><a href="http://www.freepali.com/store.aspx">www.freepali.com/store.aspx</a> <<a href="http://www.freepali.com/store.aspx">http://www.freepali.com/store.aspx</a>>Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-49813090256009567862009-08-11T22:38:00.000-05:002009-08-11T22:39:05.446-05:00[Fwd: Illegals Will be Counted in the U.S. Census]Wow, and how exactly do they propose to count illegals? it's not like <br>illegals are going to walk up to the government and say "Hello, I'm <br>illegal, and I'm here."<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Illegals Will be Counted in the U.S. Census<br>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:53:43 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <02fa01ca1acd$4bf00740$e3d015c0$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908111733g1bd09cc2p9621a43a8423c681@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908111733g1bd09cc2p9621a43a8423c681@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p>They should only be counted so we can either deport them or use them for <br>target practice.<p><br><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/census_illegal_count_us/2009/08/11/246527.html">http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/census_illegal_count_us/2009/08/11/246527.html</a><p> <p> <p><br>Illegals Will be Counted in the U.S. Census<p>California could get nine House seats it doesn't constitutionally rate<br>because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010, concluded an opinion <br>piece in<br>The Wall Street Journal.<br>The forthcoming census, which determines the apportionment of House<br>members and Electoral College votes for each state, will be counting all <br>persons<br>physically present in the country -- without regard to the legality of<br>their status.<br>Set for big gains thanks to illegal populations is not only California but<br>Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas, according to<br>the Census Bureau's 2007 American Community Survey data.<br>California has 5,622,422 noncitizens in its population of 36,264,467.<br>Based on a round-number projection by the WSJ authors of a decade-end<br>population in the Golden State of 37,000,000 (including 5,750,000 <br>noncitizens),<br>California would have 57 members in the newly-reapportioned U.S. House of<br>Representatives.<br>"However, with noncitizens not included for purposes of reapportionment,<br>California would have 48 House seats (based on an estimated 308 million<br>total population in 2010 with 283 million citizens, or 650,000 citizens per<br>House seat)," noted the report authors.<br>Meanwhile, using a similar projection, the authors noted that Texas would<br>have 38 House members with noncitizens included. With only citizens<br>counted, it would be entitled to 34 members.<br>Getting counted might seem at first blush a good thing for illegals, but<br>there is a movement afoot to encourage illegals to boycott the 2010 census.<br>As reported this week by sjnewsco, Rev. Miguel Rivera, head of the<br>National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC), <br>urged the<br>boycott on attendees at a meeting of local migrant workers and sympathizers<br>held at a Salvation Army facility in South Jersey.<br>CONLAMIC has been behind the boycott campaign "Legalization before<br>Enumeration" throughout the country.<br>"We realize that the census is very important in setting Congressional<br>districts and determining the distribution of funds," Rivera said. "The<br>problem is, there is no other alternative in applying pressure to <br>Congress to<br>achieve fair and comprehensive immigration reform."<br>Furthermore, Rivera and other CONLAMIC leaders argued that officials have<br>used previous census figures to persecute undocumented aliens.<br>Being counted, they say, has not been a positive thing.<br>While Rivera and his group express a very pragmatic interest in keeping<br>illegals out of the count, the WSJ authors see the issue as one of<br>Constitutionality.<br>"The Census Bureau can of course collect whatever data Congress<br>authorizes. But Congress must not permit the bureau to <br>unconstitutionally redefine<br>who are 'We the People of the United States,'" the authors argued.<br>Dr. Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau's Immigration Statistics<br>Staff, told the WSJ that the 2010 census short form does not ask about<br>citizenship because "Congress has not asked us to do that."<br>For sure , there has been a significant evolution from the kind of census<br>envisioned by the founding fathers, noted the authors.<br>In 1790, the first Census Act provided for the counting of "inhabitants."<p>"'Inhabitant' was at that time a term with a well-defined meaning,<br>maintained the authors.<br>As the Oxford English Dictionary expressed it, an "inhabitant" was one<br>who "is a bona fide member of a State, subject to all the requisitions <br>of its<br>laws, and entitled to all the privileges which they confer."<br>.<p>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-88599736671219359502009-08-11T19:57:00.001-05:002009-08-11T19:57:44.356-05:00[Fwd: There Are No More Jihadists]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: There Are No More Jihadists<br>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:21:32 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <e9bd100965b46faea4694c5fde1e2ad2@localhost.localdomain> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908111505t4efdf700y52f8d8e9f140f291@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908111505t4efdf700y52f8d8e9f140f291@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><p><p><p><br> There Are No More Jihadists<p>August 11, 2009<p>John Brennan, Obama's assistant for homeland security and <br>counter-terrorism, has come forth and enlightened the world with the <br>news that there are no "jihadists <br><<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2Faug%2F06%2Fwhite-house-war-terrorism-over%2F%3Ffeat%3Dhome_headlines">http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2Faug%2F06%2Fwhite-house-war-terrorism-over%2F%3Ffeat%3Dhome_headlines</a>>". <p>Mr. Brennan/Obama says that jihad is an inner struggle and inner <br>purification-a purely spiritual process, and when we call them <br>jihadists, they obtain a religious legitimacy they don't deserve. He <br>goes further to say that we are actually at war with al Qaeda and its <br>"extremist" allies.<p>And who is Brennan's source for the "truth"? Obama. Hmmm. Obama? Since <br>when is Obama an expert on the foundation of Islam? We have had another <br>president, Bush, make his own declarations about what Islam is and he <br>has no more basis to be a foundation of Islam than Obama. Democrats and <br>Republicans are joined at the ideological hip when it comes to Islam, <br>for both are profoundly ignorant about its political doctrine and <br>history. One is dumb, the other is dumber -- and you can argue over <br>which is what.<p>No matter what Brennan/Obama says, the only foundation of Islam is the <br>Koran and the Sunna of Mohammed. (The Sunna is composed of the Sira, <br>Mohammed's biography, and the Hadith, his traditions.) If we wanted to <br>know what a jihadist is, why not go to the Koran <br><<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fstore%2Fprimary-doctrine-books%2Fproduct%2Fan-abridged-koran%2F">http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fstore%2Fprimary-doctrine-books%2Fproduct%2Fan-abridged-koran%2F</a>>, <br>Sira <br><<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fstore%2Fprimary-doctrine-books%2Fproduct%2Fmohammed-and-the-unbelievers%2F">http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fstore%2Fprimary-doctrine-books%2Fproduct%2Fmohammed-and-the-unbelievers%2F</a>> <br>and Hadith <br><<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fstore%2Fprimary-doctrine-books%2Fproduct%2Fthe-political-traditions-of-mohammed%2F">http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fstore%2Fprimary-doctrine-books%2Fproduct%2Fthe-political-traditions-of-mohammed%2F</a>>? <br>Why listen to second-hand hearsay from a politician when you can listen <br>to Allah and Mohammed? Who would you trust, Brennan/Obama or Mohammed? <br>The answer from 1.2 billion Muslims is-trust Mohammed.<p>What does Mohammed say about jihad? Is it inner struggle or killing <br>kafirs? All three texts have much to say about jihad. In the Hadith by <br>Bukhari approximately 20% of the text is about jihad. Actually, the <br>Hadith is a textbook about the tactics of jihad. Do we find jihad as the <br>inner struggle in the Hadith? Yes, but we also find jihad as the killing <br>of kafirs. Do some simple math and you will discover that around 97% of <br>the text concerning jihad is about the killing of kafirs and 3% is the <br>jihad of inner struggle, the so-called greater jihad.<p>The Sira, Mohammed's biography by Ishaq, devotes a lot of attention to <br>jihad. About 70% of the Sira is about jihad. But there is not a single <br>mention of the inner struggle jihad, only killing kafirs.<p>The Koran calls jihad "fighting in Allah's cause" and the jihad is about <br>the killing of kafirs.<p>Having two kinds of jihad is a part of Islamic dualism. Islam is built <br>on two principles, submission and duality. Dualism is its great <br>strength. It allows Islam to hold two contradictory views at the same <br>time. So while jihadists are killing kafirs, Islam is proclaiming itself <br>to be peaceful. Then ignorant kafirs argue about which is the true <br>nature, completely missing the point that Islamic reasoning allows such <br>contradictions to be true for both sides.<p>There is a clash here between reasoning systems. Brennan/Obama are about <br>authoritarian reasoning. Brennan/Obama are right because they have <br>power, and they assert their power of truth by declaration. They are <br>right because they are powerful.<p>The other system of reasoning is critical thinking, also called <br>scientific thinking . Notice how different the two systems are. One of <br>them depends upon acceptance of authority, the other depends upon data <br>that anyone can go and check out for them selves.<p>Obama gave his vision of Official Islam <br><<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-official-islam%2F">http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=254168&act=6VT9&c=162528&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicalislam.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-official-islam%2F</a>> <br>in Cairo. Official Islam is based upon his authority, but Official Islam <br>is not to be found in the Koran, Sira and Hadith. Obama declared there <br>were no jihadists in his speech in Cairo and called them extremists. How <br>can a Muslim be an extremist if he doing what Mohammed did? Mohammed <br>defines Islam. Mohammed was a jihadist who killed many kafirs, hence, <br>being a jihadist is an Islamic doctrinal model, not an extremist position.<p>What difference does the name make? It just depends on what you want -- <br>scientific truth or fantasy. Official Islam is a fantasy and a <br>deliberate fraud. 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You can <br>modify/update your subscription via the link below. <p>Email Marketing by <<a href="http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186">http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186</a>><br>iContact - Try It Free! <<a href="http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186">http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186</a>><p><br> <br><<a href="http://app.icontact.com/icp/sub/forward?m=254168&s=8149463&c=6VT9&cid=162528">http://app.icontact.com/icp/sub/forward?m=254168&s=8149463&c=6VT9&cid=162528</a>> <p><p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-38004268322173183602009-08-11T18:44:00.001-05:002009-08-11T18:44:17.078-05:00[Fwd: Highlighting the ObamaCare bill page]Sorry folks, here's more disinformation!!<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Highlighting the ObamaCare bill page<br>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:18:27 -0500<br>From: Travis <<a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:baconlard@gmail.com">baconlard@gmail.com</a><br>References: <011d01ca1ac3$618b1450$24a13cf0$@com> <br><<a href="mailto:aef954850908111500o1ff00038s2c7cb1ba9cd0be4e@mail.gmail.com">aef954850908111500o1ff00038s2c7cb1ba9cd0be4e@mail.gmail.com</a>><p><p><br> <p>Thanks to internet researcher Rich Martin for sharing this important <br>information...A must for Attendees of Town Hall Meetings..God Bless <br>America,Bill ccpga/ From: spiker spiker@spiker <mailto:<a href="mailto:spiker@spiker">spiker@spiker</a>>. biz<br>Peter Fleckenstein, a blogger and former Marine from Phoenix, Arizona, <br>is going through the ObamaCare bill page by page and highlighting the <br>provisions he finds there.<p>Clearly, Fleckenstein has struck a nerve. His list, originally <br>published as a series of Twitter posts, has gone viral via email. Within <br>days, the liberal fascists published his personal information on Twitter <br>as a means to silence him. Fleckenstein promises legal action.<p>It's easy to see why the liberals are tripping over themselves to <br>suppress the information Fleckenstein unearthed. At its best, the <br>information Fleckenstein culled from the bowels of the ObamaCare bill <br>are absurd. When you really understand what the ObamaCare bill is and <br>what Congress and Obama are trying to do with it, however, it turns from <br>absurd to nearly terrifying.<p>Information has been taken from different sources for formatting <br>purposes but verified back to Fleckenstein's original work. <br>Fleckenstein's blog is here: <a href="http://blog">http://blog</a> <<a href="http://blog/">http://blog/</a>>. flecksoflife. <br>com/<p>• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!<br>• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!<br>• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and <br>benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)<br>• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health <br>benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.<br>• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with <br>free healthcare services.<br>• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.<br>• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to <br>all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.<br>• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community <br>organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)<br>• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government <br>rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.<br>• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the <br>Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)<br>• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; <br>translation: illegal aliens<br>• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up <br>individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.<br>• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: <br>you have no choice in the matter.<br>• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No <br>"judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put <br>simply, private insurers will be crushed.<br>• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.<br>• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the <br>government-run public plan. No alternatives.<br>• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees <br>AND their families.<br>• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not <br>offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll<br>• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does <br>not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll<br>• Page 167: Any individual who doesn't' have acceptable healthcare <br>(according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.<br>• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes <br>(Americans will pay for them).<br>• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy <br>will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.<br>• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as <br>tax." Yes, it really says that.<br>• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors <br>and the poor most affected."<br>• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be <br>paid the same (thanks, AMA!)<br>• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional <br>judgment, etc.<br>• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private <br>healthcare industries.<br>• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven <br>wheelchairs.<br>• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!<br>• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems <br>preventable re-admissions.<br>• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission <br>that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.<br>• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in <br>healthcare companies!<br>• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand <br>without government approval.<br>• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other <br>words, yet another payoff for ACORN.<br>• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based <br>measures: i.e., rationing.<br>• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage <br>Plans, HMOs, etc.<br>• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS <br>individuals.<br>• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare <br>by phone).<br>• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior <br>Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?<br>• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, <br>durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate <br>taxes ahead of time.<br>• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, <br>guiding you in death.<br>• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life <br>treatment; government dictates how your life ends.<br>• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate <br>treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER <br>for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.<br>• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may <br>have at end-of-life.<br>• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.<br>• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for <br>ACORN.<br>• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. <br>Government intervenes in your marriage.<br>• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, <br>creating and rationing those services.<br>* PG 502 Line 5-18 Government builds the "Center" to conduct, support, & <br>synthesize research to define our HealthCare Services.<br>* PG 502 Section 1181 Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research <br>Established. – Hello Big Brother – Literally.<br>* PG 503 Line 13-19 Government will build registries and data networks <br>from YOUR electronic medical records.<br>* PG 503 Line 21-25 Government may secure data directly from any <br>department or agency of the US including your data.<br>* PG 504 Line 6-10 The "Center" will collect data both published & <br>unpublished (that means public & your private info)<br>* PG 506 Line 19-21 The Center will recommend policies that would allow <br>for public access of data.<br>* PG 518 Line 21-25 The Commission will have input from HealthCare <br>consumer reps – Can you say unions & ACORN?<br>* PG 524 18-22 Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund set up. <br>More taxes for ALL.<br>* PGs 525-620 deals with the Govt basically taking over nursing homes, <br>long-term care facilities (think assisted living) through regulations of <br>the facilities, the owners of sd facilities, the employees of sd <br>facilities and even the land owners of that sd facilities reside on. <br>Additionally as you read these 90+ pages you can come to the conclusion <br>that any Health related services will be determined and rationed by the <br>Govt for our senior citizens and others in nursing homes. This one post <br>should do enough to raise awareness of the control the Govt is exerting <br>over the older population of American citizens.<br>* PG 620 Line 1-9 The Government will define, prioritize, and <br>nationalize your Health Care Services.<br>* PG 621 Lines 20-25 Government will define what Quality means in <br>HealthCare. Since when does Government know about quality?<br>* PG 622 Lines 2-9 To pay for the quality Standards Government will <br>transfer $$ from to other Government Trust Funds. More Taxes.<br>* PG 624 "Quality" measures shall be designed to assess outcomes & <br>functional status of patients.<br>* PG 628 Section 1443 Government will give "Multi-Stake Holders" <br>Pre-Rule Making input into Selection of "Quality" Measures.<br>* PG 630 9-24/631 1-9 Those Multi-stake holder groups including Unions & <br>groups like ACORN deciding HealthCare quality.<br>* PG 632 Lines 14-25 The Government may implement any "Quality measure" <br>of HealthCare Services as they see fit.<br>* PG 633 14-25/ 634 1-9 The Secretary may issue non-endorsed "Quality <br>Measures" for Physician Services & Dialysis Services.<br>* PG 635 – 653 Physicians Payments Sunshine Provision – Government wants <br>to shine sunlight on Docs but not Government.<br>* PG 654-659 Public Reporting on Health Care-Associated Infections – <br>Looks okay.<br>* PG 660-671 Doctors in Residency – Government will tell you where your <br>residency will be, thus where you'll live.<br>* PG 676-686 Government will regulate hospitals in EVERY aspect of <br>residency programs, including teaching hospitals.<br>* PG 686-700 Increased Funding to Fight Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. You <br>mean the Government with an $18 mil website?<br>* PGs 701-704 Section 1619 If your part of HealthCare plan that isn't in <br>Government HealthCare Exchange but you qualify for Federal aid, no payment.<br>* PG 705-709 SEC. 1128 If Secretary gets complaints (ACORN) on <br>HealthCare provider or supplier, Government can do background check.<br>* PG 711 Lines 8-14 The Secretary has broad powers to deny HealthCare <br>providers/suppliers admittance into HealthCare Exchange.<br>* Pg 719-720 Section 1637 ANY Doctor who orders durable medical <br>equipment or home medical services MUST be enrolled in Medicare.<br>* PG 722 Section 1639 Government Mandates Doctors must have face-to-face <br>with patient to certify patient for Home Health Services.<br>* PG 724 23-25 PG 725 1-5 The same Government certifications will apply <br>to medicaid & CHIP (your kids) Pg 735 lines 16-25 For law enforcement <br>purposes, the Secretary of Health & Human Services will give Attorney <br>General access to ALL data.<br>* PG 724 Lines 16-22 Government reserves right to apply face-to-face <br>certification for patient to ANY other HealthCare service.<br>* PG 740-757 Government sets guidelines for subsidizing the uninsured <br>(That's your tax dollars peeps)<br> Pg 757-762 Fed Government will shift burden of payments to <br>Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) to States. (Taxes)<br>* PG 763 1-8 No DS/EA hospitals will be paid unless they provide <br>services without regard to national origin<br>* Pg 765 Section 1711 Government will require Preventative Services <br>including vaccines. (Choice?)<br>* Pg 768 Section 1713 Government – Nursing Home Visitation Services <br>(Hello union paybacks)<br>* Pg 769 11-14 Nurseing Home Visit Services include-economic <br>self-sufficiency, employment advancement, school-readiness.<br>* Pg 769 3-5 Nursing Home Visit Services – "increasing birth intervals <br>between pregnancies." Government Abortions anyone?<br>* Pg 770 SEC 1714 Federal Government mandates eligibility for State <br>Family Planning Services. Say abortion & State Sovereign.<br>* Pg 789-797 Government will set & mandate drug prices, controlling <br>which drugs will brought to market. Goodbye innovation.<br>* Pgs 797-800 SEC. 1744 PAYMENTS for grad medical education. The <br>government will now control Drs education.<br>* PG 801 Sec 1751 The Government will decide which Health care <br>conditions will be paid. Say RATION!<br>* Pg 810 SEC. 1759. Billing Agents, clearinghouses, etc. required to <br>register. Government takes over private payment system.<br>* PG 820-824 Sec 1801 Government will identify individuals ineligible <br>for subsidies. Will access all personal finances.<br>* Pg 824-829 SEC. 1802. Government Sets up Comparative Effectiveness <br>Research Trust Fund. Another tax black hole.<br>* PG 829-833 Government will impose a fee on ALL private health <br>insurance plans including self insured to pay for Trust Fund!<br>* PG 835 11-13 fees imposed by Government for Trust Fund shall be <br>treated as if they were taxes.<br>* Pg 838-840 Government will design & implement Home Visitation Program <br>for families with young kids & families expecting kids.<br>* PG 844-845 This Home Visitation Program includes Government coming <br>into your house & telling you how to parent!!!<br>* Pg 859 Government will establish a Public Health Fund at a cost of <br>$88,800,000, 000. Yes thats Billion.<br>* PG 865 to 876 The NHS Corps is a program where Drs. perform mandatory <br>HealthCare for 2 years for part loan repayment.<br>* PG 876-892 The Government takes over the education of our Medical <br>students and Drs.<br>* PG 898 The Government will establish a Public Health Workforce Corps. <br>to ensure supply of public health professionals.<br>* PG 898 The Public health workforce corps shall consist of civilian <br>employees of the U.S. as Secretary deems.<br>* PG 898 The Public health workforce corps shall consist of officers of <br>Regular & Reserve Corps of Service.<br>* PG 900 The Public Health Workforce Corps includes veterinarians.<br>* PG 901 The Public Health Workforce Corps WILL include commissioned <br>Regular & Reserve Officers. HealthCare Draft?<br>* PG 910 The Government will develop, build & run Public Health Training <br>Centers.<br>* PG 913-914 Government starts a HealthCare affirmative action program <br>thru guise of diversity scholarships.<br>* PG 915 SEC. 2251. Government MANDATES Cultural & linguistic competency <br>training for HealthCare professionals.<br>* Pg 932 The Government will establish Preventative & Wellness Trust <br>fund – initial cost of $30,800,000, 000-Billion.<br>* PG 935 21-22 Government will identify specific goals & objectives for <br>prevention & wellness activities. Control You!!<br>* PG 936 Government will develop "Healthy People & National Public <br>Health Performance Standards" Tell me what to eat?<br>* PG 942 Lines 22-25 More Government? Offices of Surgeon General -Public <br>Health Services, Minority Health, Women's Health.<br>* PG 950- 980 BIG Government core public health infrastructure includes <br>workforce capacity, lab systems; health information systems, etc<br>* PG 993 Government will establish school based health clinics. Your <br>kids won't have a chance.<br>* PG 994 School Based Health Clinics will be integrated into the school <br>environment. Say Government Brainwash!<br>* PG 1001 The Government will establish a National Medical Device <br>Registry. Will you be tracked?<br>* PG 1003 9-11 National Medical Dev Reg ''(iii) other postmarket device <br>surveillance activities" you WILL be tracked.<br>* PG 1018 States give up some of their State Sovereignty.<p>__,_._,___<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google <br>Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <br><a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-21201142273990505982009-08-10T07:42:00.001-05:002009-08-10T07:42:20.166-05:00[Fwd: LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE]So, we've gone from the spread of disinformation to lying?<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE<br>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:18:49 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: mike532 <<a href="mailto:littlemike532@gmail.com">littlemike532@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: Politics & Current Events <<a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a>><p><p>LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE<p>By Stephen Day<br><a href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9175">http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9175</a><br>As Steven Pearlstein recently demonstrated in the Washington Post,<br>Republicans have been spreading blatant lies in their opposition to<br>health care reform.<p><br>And as Paul Krugman noted in response in his blog at The New York<br>Times, this is hardly a surprising development, given that lying<br>about<br>important public policy issues has been the GOP's consistent modus<br>operandi for well over a decade.<p><br>So let's stop to consider this for a moment: our nation faces huge<br>challenges — challenges we stand little chance of successfully<br>addressing without an open and honest public dialogue toward that<br>end.<br>Yet, one of the nation's two "great" political parties has adopted,<br>as<br>its primary operating strategy, a policy of consistently thwarting<br>all<br>attempts at achieving such a dialogue.<p><br>Is it just me, or is it hard not to call that evil?<p><br>And if that's true, wouldn't rewarding such practices, by meeting<br>their sponsors halfway in the name of bipartisanship, constitute not<br>only bad policy, but also something akin to sin?<p><br>It sure seems that way to me.<p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-23562008730569580992009-08-10T07:05:00.000-05:002009-08-10T07:06:04.843-05:00[Fwd: Healthcare critics make outlandish claims: Obama]Here's an article about how great health care reform is, and what liars <br>the idiots that spread disinformation are.<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Healthcare critics make outlandish claims: Obama<br>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:50:43 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: mike532 <<a href="mailto:littlemike532@gmail.com">littlemike532@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: Politics & Current Events <<a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a>><p><p>Healthcare critics make outlandish claims: Obama<br><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0742097620090808">http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0742097620090808</a><br>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama accused his critics on<br>Saturday of resorting to "outlandish rumors" and "misleading<br>information" aimed at derailing his efforts to overhaul the $2.5<br>trillion U.S. healthcare system.<p>Obama struck back at conservative opponents as lawmakers returned<br>home<br>for their August break facing an increasingly rancorous battle over<br>his top domestic legislative priority. A deal on healthcare has yet<br>to<br>be struck in Congress.<p><br>"As we draw close to finalizing -- and passing -- real health<br>insurance reform, the defenders of the status quo and political<br>point-<br>scorers in Washington are growing fiercer in their opposition," Obama<br>said, without naming names, in his weekly radio and Internet address.<p><br>"Some have been using misleading information to defeat what they know<br>is the best chance of reform we have ever had," Obama said, adding it<br>was critical for Americans to have all the facts as they meet their<br>lawmakers in home districts.<p><br>Obama adviser David Axelrod has coached Democrats in the Senate,<br>where<br>the party has a majority, on how to deal with angry opponents of the<br>healthcare proposals during the month long recess.<p><br>Obama's aides and fellow Democrats have charged that protests staged<br>at some "town hall"-style meetings held by congressional Democrats<br>have been orchestrated by Republican- and industry-backed groups and<br>conservative talk-show hosts, and are calling for a more civil<br>dialogue.<p><br>Obama's push for healthcare reform, which seeks to provide coverage<br>to<br>nearly 46 million uninsured Americans, rein in healthcare costs and<br>regulate insurance practices the package is vital to a U.S. economic<br>recovery. No Republicans have backed the proposals being crafted in<br>Congress.<p><br>"Let me explain what reform will mean for you. And let me start by<br>dispelling the outlandish rumors that reform will promote euthanasia,<br>cut Medicaid or bring about a government takeover of health care.<br>That's simply not true," Obama said in his Saturday address.<p><br>"There are those who ... are trying to exploit differences or<br>concerns<br>for political gain," he added. Continued...<p><p><p>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050923297347500012.post-47746155086543710892009-08-09T16:18:00.001-05:002009-08-09T16:18:41.437-05:00[Fwd: .Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security]-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: .Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security<br>Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:12:25 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: mike532 <<a href="mailto:littlemike532@gmail.com">littlemike532@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To: Politics & Current Events <<a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a>><p><p>.Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security<br>WASHINGTON — The changing global climate will pose profound strategic<br>challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the<br>prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent<br>storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and<br>intelligence analysts say.<p>Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist<br>movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at<br>the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are<br>taking a serious look at the national security implications of<br>climate<br>change.<p><br>Recent war games and intelligence studies conclude that over the next<br>20 to 30 years, vulnerable regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa,<br>the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, will face the prospect<br>of food shortages, water crises and catastrophic flooding driven by<br>climate change that could demand an American humanitarian relief or<br>military response.<p><br>An exercise last December at the National Defense University, an<br>educational institute that is overseen by the military, explored the<br>potential impact of a destructive flood in Bangladesh that sent<br>hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into neighboring India,<br>touching off religious conflict, the spread of contagious diseases<br>and<br>vast damage to infrastructure. "It gets real complicated real<br>quickly," said Amanda J. Dory, the deputy assistant secretary of<br>defense for strategy, who is working with a Pentagon group assigned<br>to<br>incorporate climate change into national security strategy planning.<p><br>Much of the public and political debate on global warming has focused<br>on finding substitutes for fossil fuels, reducing emissions that<br>contribute to greenhouse gases and furthering negotiations toward an<br>international climate treaty — not potential security challenges.<p><br>But a growing number of policy makers say that the world's rising<br>temperatures, surging seas and melting glaciers are a direct threat<br>to<br>the national interest.<p><br>If the United States does not lead the world in reducing fossil-fuel<br>consumption and thus emissions of global warming gases, proponents of<br>this view say, a series of global environmental, social, political<br>and<br>possibly military crises loom that the nation will urgently have to<br>address.<p><br>This argument could prove a fulcrum for debate in the Senate next<br>month when it takes up climate and energy legislation passed in June<br>by the House.<p><br>Lawmakers leading the debate before Congress are only now beginning<br>to<br>make the national security argument for approving the legislation.<p><br>Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is the chairman of<br>the Foreign Relations Committee and a leading advocate for the<br>climate<br>legislation, said he hoped to sway Senate skeptics by pressing that<br>issue to pass a meaningful bill.<p><br>Mr. Kerry said he did not know whether he would succeed but had<br>spoken<br>with 30 undecided senators on the matter.<p><br>He did not identify those senators, but the list of undecided<br>includes<br>many from coal and manufacturing states and from the South and<br>Southeast, which will face the sharpest energy price increases from<br>any carbon emissions control program.<p><br>"I've been making this argument for a number of years," Mr. Kerry<br>said, "but it has not been a focus because a lot of people had not<br>connected the dots." He said he had urged President Obama to make the<br>case, too.<p><br>Mr. Kerry said the continuing conflict in southern Sudan, which has<br>killed and displaced tens of thousands of people, is a result of<br>drought and expansion of deserts in the north. "That is going to be<br>repeated many times over and on a much larger scale," he said.<p><br>The Department of Defense's assessment of the security issue came<br>about after prodding by Congress to include climate issues in its<br>strategic plans — specifically, in 2008 budget authorizations by<br>Hillary Rodham Clinton and John W. Warner, then senators. The<br>department's climate modeling is based on sophisticated Navy and Air<br>Force weather programs and other government climate research programs<br>at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<p><br>The Pentagon and the State Department have studied issues arising<br>from<br>dependence on foreign sources of energy for years but are only now<br>considering the effects of global warming in their long-term planning<br>documents. The Pentagon will include a climate section in the<br>Quadrennial Defense Review, due in February; the State Department<br>will<br>address the issue in its new Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development<br>Review.<p><br>"The sense that climate change poses security and geopolitical<br>challenges is central to the thinking of the State Department and the<br>climate office," said Peter Ogden, chief of staff to Todd Stern, the<br>State Department's top climate negotiator.<p><br>Although military and intelligence planners have been aware of the<br>challenge posed by climate changes for some years, the Obama<br>administration has made it a central policy focus.<p><br>A changing climate presents a range of challenges for the military.<br>Many of its critical installations are vulnerable to rising seas and<br>storm surges. In Florida, Homestead Air Force Base was essentially<br>destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and Hurricane Ivan badly<br>damaged Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2004. Military planners are<br>studying ways to protect the major naval stations in Norfolk, Va.,<br>and<br>San Diego from climate-induced rising seas and severe storms.<p><br>Another vulnerable installation is Diego Garcia, an atoll in the<br>Indian Ocean that serves as a logistics hub for American and British<br>forces in the Middle East and sits a few feet above sea level.<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?th&emc=th">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?th&emc=th</a><p><p><br>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Politics & Current Events" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:politics-current-events%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">politics-current-events+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en</a><br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---Nimer Jaberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01817839505369665319noreply@blogger.com0