Afghanistan Is About Gas and Oil - and Uranium

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Thursday November 12, 2009 · 2:32 PM PST

2009/11/12 · 14:32

Afghanistan sits in a region rich in natural gas, with two competing international pipelines and one of the two includes Iran, Pakistan and India. It's also in the region that provided Russia with its first source of uranium for its first nuclear bomb. Yet all discussion on our involvement in Afghanistan is centered on "terrorism". For pity's sake, even Seymour Hirsch sits yappin' about counter-terrorism on Maddow's show. Are we supposed to be utter fools? ARE we utter fools? How are we so clear on the plain and simple fact that Iraq is about oil, Iran is about oil - but Afghanistan is about terrorism? with a mere 100 Al Qaeda and a bunch of fundamentalist tribal leaders trying to send women back to the Stone Age (complete with stonings, whippings and beheadings)? If homegrown movements to overthrow a corrupt puppet government and oppress women is enough to launch our forces on land, in the air and the sea, we'd have a permanent mandatory military service - The Draft - for every American and immigrant, and a quarter million troops in almost every country.

So, let me just post link after link after link, since we keep playing the broken record we were given (or corrupted disk, if that suits for our oh-so-modern era).

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 3:09 PM PST

2009/11/09 · 15:09

Before the Stupak Amendment, the Democrats' defense against the anti-choice reps was to cite the 1973 Hyde Amendment. Thanks to the Hyde Amendment, even if we defeat the Stupak/Pitts Amendment, a woman who chooses the public option, or is a wife on the same plan as a man who chooses the public option, or a woman who gets subsidies for a private plan, can not use her insurance if she needs an abortion. If we had gotten single-payer on the table, would they also support Hyde to deny women on single-payer choice?

Hyde has been off the radar for too long, so here's some background on Hyde, and a list of women already denied the right to choice under the Hyde Amendment, just so you know:

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Sunday November 08, 2009 · 1:41 AM PST

2009/11/08 · 01:41

I did a quick review of the Democrats in the House who voted against the public option reform bill, and noted a few interesting outcomes that seem to strengthen our hand in the Senate:

There was not a single Democratic defector in Lieberman's CT, Ben Nelson's NE, or Evan Bayh's IN.

There was only one Dem defector in anti-public-option Dem Sen. Blanche Lincoln's AR (and the junior senator of AR is a Dem making no threats - Mark Pryor). There was only one defector in Landrieu's LA - and one LA Republican, Coh, voted for the Dem bill (and the Repub bill as well, clever Coh from a Dem district!).

There were zero Dem defectors in McCain's AZ and in Lugar's IN.

The rest of the defecting Dems were in the south, of course. But even there, Blanche Lincoln would be one of only two Democratic AR representatives voting against the public option, and Landrieu would be the only Dem in LA standing with Vitter, of all people.

So, could these plays, and Lugar, be Obama's trump card?

inaru

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Saturday November 07, 2009 · 4:17 PM PST

2009/11/07 · 16:17

The Stupak Amendment sucks, without a doubt. It will make all women equal, how horrible! Allow me to explain.

Since 1976 the Hyde Amendment established a double-standard. Women who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid have been denied access to abortion except in non-federally-funded clinics, which have become so few-and-far-between that these women often have to travel to another state to get an abortion. The same goes for disabled women on Medicare, and for Native women who rely on the Indian Health Service. When the SCHIP was established, adolescent females joined the ranks of poor, disabled and Native women.

And now Firedog Lake, DKOs and liberal blogs are calling for action to preserve the double-standard?! We liberals want females on Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, IHS, to be subject to the Hyde Amendment, and all other females to have access to choice in the nearest hospital?!

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 4:12 PM PDT

2009/08/31 · 16:12

If we do not get a public option, we will pay billions of dollars in subsidies to private insurers only. 80% of people with no health insurance are workers, and rightfully, they will get subsidies.

Wrongfully, all that subsidy money paid with your taxes and theirs, will go to private insurers, and pay for not only health care, but also for:

- Salaries of $20-$25 million for private insurance CEOs

- Perks like private jets, bonuses, and stock shares often worth over $100 million for those CEOs

No government employee gets millions of dollars a year, and perks and stock shares worth over $100 million.

- Your firefighters, police, highway patrol do not make $25 million a year.

- Soldiers don't make $25 million a year, nor do their families if they're killed or maimed.

- Your congressmen don’t make $25 million a year.

- Your President of the United States does not make $25 million/year.

- Your Medicare, VA and Medicaid bureaucrats do not make $25 million/year.

Poll

9 votes Show Results

Will you get out of your comfort zone for the public option?

9 votes Vote Now!

Will you get out of your comfort zone for the public option?

OK, quit nagging, I'll call 50 people (go to barackobama.com)

1 vote

Alright already, I'll volunteer to drive folks to a rally (check barackobama.com or moveon.org)

0 votes

I will call my senators/representative every single day

5 votes

I'll write a letter to the editor

0 votes

I'll haunt blogs and post this info everywhere

2 votes

I'm real shy, I'll print this and leave it at people's doors when they're not home

0 votes

Can't be bothered, so I'll light up or drink one down and wait for you to do it for me

1 vote

Progressive Activists - Fight or Quit?

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 5:42 PM PDT

2009/08/21 · 17:42

Polls say Obama is losing ground with - wait for it, not Independents - with Democrats. Ultimately, this means the Public Option will fail. It cannot, will not pass without all boots on the ground.

I mean, think about it. Eight years of Bush/Cheney, an illegal war, torture, civil rights in the trash, financial collapse - and we still didn't win 08 with a landslide. I and many thousands hustled for over two years in my own state, with forages to other states. On Election Day we worked from dawn until California was declared for Obama, getting out the vote from coast-to-coast. Yet we still didn't get a landslide.

Activists for single-payer are saying “No compromise! We must agitate more for single-payer only!” But - sigh - the poorest and most exploited are usually the least able/willing to organize. It’s sheer exhaustion trying to survive day-to-day. That's why you aren’t seeing the most-impacted rise up, and why everything's screwed up. So do we agitate for what is utterly impossible to get now because of all the forces mustered to defeat single-payer - or will you fight even for a barely-sufficient Public Option, or even push for reform that covers all people without the Public Option (shudder)- or take your marbles and go home?

Poll

34 votes Show Results

Will you stay or will you go?

I will fight for every little bit we can get (Excellent, sign-up here http://www.barackobama.com/)

I will only fight for the Public Option (Excellent, sign-up here http://www.barackobama.com/)

I will only fight for Single-Payer/Medicare For All (Fine, then organize!)

I've got money but no time, or I would (Fine, donate to support those w/time http://www.barackobama.com/)

I'll only donate to those who support reform (Fine, go to actblue.com)

I have no money or time (Please, ask those who do to step up)

I'm so depressed I can hardly move (Please, ask anyone who might to help you back up, there's no shame in it)

I can't do anything but read and comment on blogs (Then please, don't discourage those who work for some/any improvement)

I'm kind of a brat, so I'll just complain and get wasted (Good luck with that)

34 votes Vote Now!

Will you stay or will you go?

I will fight for every little bit we can get (Excellent, sign-up here http://www.barackobama.com/)

14 votes

I will only fight for the Public Option (Excellent, sign-up here http://www.barackobama.com/)

5 votes

I will only fight for Single-Payer/Medicare For All (Fine, then organize!)

4 votes

I've got money but no time, or I would (Fine, donate to support those w/time http://www.barackobama.com/)

0 votes

I'll only donate to those who support reform (Fine, go to actblue.com)

3 votes

I have no money or time (Please, ask those who do to step up)

0 votes

I'm so depressed I can hardly move (Please, ask anyone who might to help you back up, there's no shame in it)

5 votes

I can't do anything but read and comment on blogs (Then please, don't discourage those who work for some/any improvement)

0 votes

I'm kind of a brat, so I'll just complain and get wasted (Good luck with that)

3 votes

Money talks, so announce "No more loyalty" to Dem campaign committees

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Monday July 20, 2009 · 4:02 PM PDT

2009/07/20 · 16:02

Fundraising for reelection is all they care about, so it's time we tell their campaign fundraisers, "Not $1, not one phone call, not one door knocked on, not one voter registration drive, for Dems who join Republicans to "Waterloo" Steele/DeMint HC Obama's Waterloo President Obama's health care reform plan with a public option. No delays designed to kill the reform! August is their deadline, let them work like we have to work for one-tenth or less than they "earn". Like we work to NOT get benefits they get. These are our targets:

- DSCC Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
DCCC Chair Rep. Chris Van Hollen, MD 3rd District, Phone: (202) 225-5341
- DCCC Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
DSCC Chair Sen. Robert Menendez, NJ, Phone: (202) 224-4744

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 6:44 PM PDT

2008/05/03 · 18:44

I just searched the names of the military advisers/lobbyists who have been feeding fake stories to the media, paid in full to do it, while they also lobby for domestic and foreign corporations seeking Pentagon contracts, and guess what I found on lobbyist/pundit retired Gen. Robert Scales:

www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view

From the Hillary Clinton website:

"The Clinton campaign today announded [sic] the addition of 36 new co-chairs to the Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary Committee. Newly edorsing [sic] members of the committee include Lt. General Joseph Ballard, Lt. Generl [sic] Robert Gard, Lt. General Don Kerrick Major General Paul Eaton, and Major General Robert Scales.

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Afghanistan Is About Gas and Oil - and Uranium

Public Option w/Stupak Means "No Choice"

Obama, Pelosi: Nicely Played for Senate Battle

Anti-Stupak Movement=Hypocrisy, Bourgeois Liberalism, Preservation of Double-Standard

NO PUBLIC OPTION = BILLIONS FOR CEOs

Progressive Activists - Fight or Quit?

Money talks, so announce "No more loyalty" to Dem campaign committees

Hillary Clinton's Lobbyist/Pentagon Media Pundit, Gen. Scales