Danny Schechter, the News Dissector:
'SCROOGE TO OUR KIDS: WE CAN’T AFFORD YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE
IN DEBT WE TRUST: Ad on the Subway: “I am 35, single, broke but I have a fierce outfit.”BUSH VETOES KIDS HEALTH INSURANCE IN TIME FOR XMASCAN WE TRUST THE VOTING SYSTEM?INVESTMENT BANK SAYS PERFECT STORM COMING, ISSUES ALERT
Acting in Private, in this Christmas season, your President and mine VETOED the Child Health Insurance Bill.
AP: WASHINGTON - President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program.
And Yet:ROBERT PARRY: WHY THE DEMS MIGHT LOSE IN 2008AMERICAN ELECTIONS: BALLOTS CAST V BALLOTS COUNTED
The federal Election Assistance Commission — theagency created after the 2000 presidential debaclethat is tasked with overseeing voting machine testingand serving as a clearinghouse for electionadministration information — published a survey ofthe 2006 election today that reveals some interestingstats.
The information, collected from electionadministrators nationwide, covers the number ofregistered voters per jurisdiction, voter turnout,types of voting systems used, percentage of votes castby absentee and provisional ballots, etc.
One interesting nugget concerns the number of ballotscast vs. ballots counted in the election.
According to the report, about 82 million ballots were“cast or counted” in the 2006 election (the numberisn’t exact because not every jurisdiction respondedto the survey). But some 3.2 million ballots that werecast never got counted. [I should note here that it’sreally confusing that the EAC refers to the 82 millionballots as “cast or counted” since it isn’t possiblefor a ballot to be counted if it wasn’t cast — atleast not a legal ballot. It would have been betterfor the report to just say “82 million ballots werecast.”
M&G: The business of climate change
Think about climate change long enough and you soon realise that it is more than our lightbulbs that we are going to have to change. Colleagues have argued, as delegates gather in Bali to hammer out a global accord to avert this catastrophe, that a more fundamental overhaul will be required.
HERES THE SIGN: AFGHAN WAR LOST
Gordon Brown: ‘It’s time to talk to the Taliban’
Today, the Prime Minister will announce amajor shift in strategy on Afghanistan. Could it markthe beginning of the end of a bloody six-year war? Oris it just spin?
As the deadliest year in Afghanistan since the US-ledinvasion in 2001 comes to a close, Gordon Brown isready to talk to the Taliban in a major shift instrategy that is likely to cause consternation amonghardliners in the White House.
RAWA: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators In Afghanistan
The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan.
A GOOD WORD FOR VLAD
Mike Whitney takes issue with most of our media coverage of Putin’s electoral victory:
On Sunday, Putin’s party, United Russia, stormed to victory in the country’s parliamentary elections with 63 per cent of the vote. It was a romp. United Russia now controls 306 of the 450 seats in the Dumas, an overwhelming majority. The balloting was a referendum on Putin’s leadership and it passed in a landslide.
Now it’s certain, that even if Putin steps down aspresident next year as expected, he will be thedominant player in Russian politics for theforeseeable future.
Vladamir Putin is arguably the most popular leader inRussian history, although you’d never know it byreading the western media. According to a recentsurvey conducted by the Wall Street Journal, Putin’spersonal approval rating in November 2007 was 85 percent, making him the most popular head of state in theworld today. Putin’s popularity derives from manyfactors. He is personally clever and charismatic. Heis fiercely nationalistic and has worked tirelessly toimprove the lives of ordinary Russians and restore thecountry to its former greatness. He has raised over 20million Russians out of grinding poverty, improvededucation, health care and the pension system,(partially) nationalized critical industries, loweredunemployment, increased manufacturing and exports,invigorated Russian markets, strengthened the ruble,raised the overall standard of living, reducedgovernment corruption, jailed or exiled the venaloligarchs, and amassed capital reserves of $450billion.
Russia is no longer up for grabs like it was after thefall of the Soviet Union. Putin put an end to all ofthat. He reasserted control over the country’s vastresources and he’s using them to improve the lives ofhis own people. This is a real departure from the1990s, when the drunken Yeltsin steered Russia intoeconomic disaster by following Washington’s neoliberaledicts and by selling Russia’s Crown Jewels to thevulturous oligarchs. Putin put Russia’s house back inorder; stabilized the ruble, strengthenedeconomic/military alliances in the region, and removedthe corporate gangsters who had stolen Russia’snational assets for pennies on the dollar. Theoligarchs are now all either in jail or have fled thecountry. Russia is no longer for sale.
Russia is, once again, a major world power and a vitalsource of hydrocarbons. It’s star is steadily risingjust as America’s has begun to wane. This may explainwhy Putin is loathed by the West. Freud might call itpetroleum envy, but it’s deeper than that. Putin hascharted a course for social change that conflicts withbasic tenets of neoliberalism, which are theprinciples which govern US foreign policy. He is not amember of the corporate-banking brotherhood whichbelieves the wealth of the world should be dividedamong themselves regardless of the suffering ordestruction it may cause. Putin’s primary focus isRussia; Russia’s welfare, Russia’s sovereignty andRussia’s place in the world. He is not a globalist.'
IN DEBT WE TRUST: Ad on the Subway: “I am 35, single, broke but I have a fierce outfit.”BUSH VETOES KIDS HEALTH INSURANCE IN TIME FOR XMASCAN WE TRUST THE VOTING SYSTEM?INVESTMENT BANK SAYS PERFECT STORM COMING, ISSUES ALERT
Acting in Private, in this Christmas season, your President and mine VETOED the Child Health Insurance Bill.
AP: WASHINGTON - President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program.
And Yet:ROBERT PARRY: WHY THE DEMS MIGHT LOSE IN 2008AMERICAN ELECTIONS: BALLOTS CAST V BALLOTS COUNTED
The federal Election Assistance Commission — theagency created after the 2000 presidential debaclethat is tasked with overseeing voting machine testingand serving as a clearinghouse for electionadministration information — published a survey ofthe 2006 election today that reveals some interestingstats.
The information, collected from electionadministrators nationwide, covers the number ofregistered voters per jurisdiction, voter turnout,types of voting systems used, percentage of votes castby absentee and provisional ballots, etc.
One interesting nugget concerns the number of ballotscast vs. ballots counted in the election.
According to the report, about 82 million ballots were“cast or counted” in the 2006 election (the numberisn’t exact because not every jurisdiction respondedto the survey). But some 3.2 million ballots that werecast never got counted. [I should note here that it’sreally confusing that the EAC refers to the 82 millionballots as “cast or counted” since it isn’t possiblefor a ballot to be counted if it wasn’t cast — atleast not a legal ballot. It would have been betterfor the report to just say “82 million ballots werecast.”
M&G: The business of climate change
Think about climate change long enough and you soon realise that it is more than our lightbulbs that we are going to have to change. Colleagues have argued, as delegates gather in Bali to hammer out a global accord to avert this catastrophe, that a more fundamental overhaul will be required.
HERES THE SIGN: AFGHAN WAR LOST
Gordon Brown: ‘It’s time to talk to the Taliban’
Today, the Prime Minister will announce amajor shift in strategy on Afghanistan. Could it markthe beginning of the end of a bloody six-year war? Oris it just spin?
As the deadliest year in Afghanistan since the US-ledinvasion in 2001 comes to a close, Gordon Brown isready to talk to the Taliban in a major shift instrategy that is likely to cause consternation amonghardliners in the White House.
RAWA: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators In Afghanistan
The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan.
A GOOD WORD FOR VLAD
Mike Whitney takes issue with most of our media coverage of Putin’s electoral victory:
On Sunday, Putin’s party, United Russia, stormed to victory in the country’s parliamentary elections with 63 per cent of the vote. It was a romp. United Russia now controls 306 of the 450 seats in the Dumas, an overwhelming majority. The balloting was a referendum on Putin’s leadership and it passed in a landslide.
Now it’s certain, that even if Putin steps down aspresident next year as expected, he will be thedominant player in Russian politics for theforeseeable future.
Vladamir Putin is arguably the most popular leader inRussian history, although you’d never know it byreading the western media. According to a recentsurvey conducted by the Wall Street Journal, Putin’spersonal approval rating in November 2007 was 85 percent, making him the most popular head of state in theworld today. Putin’s popularity derives from manyfactors. He is personally clever and charismatic. Heis fiercely nationalistic and has worked tirelessly toimprove the lives of ordinary Russians and restore thecountry to its former greatness. He has raised over 20million Russians out of grinding poverty, improvededucation, health care and the pension system,(partially) nationalized critical industries, loweredunemployment, increased manufacturing and exports,invigorated Russian markets, strengthened the ruble,raised the overall standard of living, reducedgovernment corruption, jailed or exiled the venaloligarchs, and amassed capital reserves of $450billion.
Russia is no longer up for grabs like it was after thefall of the Soviet Union. Putin put an end to all ofthat. He reasserted control over the country’s vastresources and he’s using them to improve the lives ofhis own people. This is a real departure from the1990s, when the drunken Yeltsin steered Russia intoeconomic disaster by following Washington’s neoliberaledicts and by selling Russia’s Crown Jewels to thevulturous oligarchs. Putin put Russia’s house back inorder; stabilized the ruble, strengthenedeconomic/military alliances in the region, and removedthe corporate gangsters who had stolen Russia’snational assets for pennies on the dollar. Theoligarchs are now all either in jail or have fled thecountry. Russia is no longer for sale.
Russia is, once again, a major world power and a vitalsource of hydrocarbons. It’s star is steadily risingjust as America’s has begun to wane. This may explainwhy Putin is loathed by the West. Freud might call itpetroleum envy, but it’s deeper than that. Putin hascharted a course for social change that conflicts withbasic tenets of neoliberalism, which are theprinciples which govern US foreign policy. He is not amember of the corporate-banking brotherhood whichbelieves the wealth of the world should be dividedamong themselves regardless of the suffering ordestruction it may cause. Putin’s primary focus isRussia; Russia’s welfare, Russia’s sovereignty andRussia’s place in the world. He is not a globalist.'
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