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Changing gloves ‘not part of standard operating procedures’ at TSA, government official says |
by Infection Protection
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04 Jan 2008
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The world is edging closer to a new influenza pandemic than at any time since 1968. |
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Should You Be On A Government Watch List? |
by Jack Williams
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04 Jan 2008
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Government’s words “may pose a suspected threat to national security” are so vague one can’t wonder if that could” apply to stopping individuals wanting to fly to an anti-war or environmental protest. |
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Wake-up Boston: Obama's the stealth corporado! |
by oak
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04 Jan 2008
Modified: 06:53:58 AM |
Hey Boston Dems! Going to NH to campaign for Obama? Check this out:
"... Obama's a cold-blooded, Chicago-based and Daley-schooled corporate opportunist who does not believe much of his own campaign drivel and imagery. He is receiving many millions of election dollars from the real “special interests” that most significantly control U.S. society, culture, politics, and policy: leading global investment firms and other powerful corporate interests |
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News :: War and Militarism |
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Sneak peek at a desert Armageddon |
by Asia Times
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03 Jan 2008
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...a veritable industry was built around parsing the literal fallout if deterrence should fail. Indeed, it was Herman Kahn, who founded the Hudson Institute, who in 1965 wrote the book On Escalation, which included an escalation ladder, whose final and 44th step was "spasm or insensate war". In a somewhat similar spirit, a recently released briefing has been making waves. The briefing is turning heads because it was written by Anthony Cordesman, who was a former director of intelligence assessment in the US Secretary of Defense office. He also holds the Arleigh A Burke chair in strategy at CSIS and has done numerous assessments of the Persian Gulf and the Middle East. |
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News :: International : Media |
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The Shortwave Report 01/04/08 ¡Listen Globally! |
by Dan Roberts
outfarpress (nospam) saber.net (verified) |
03 Jan 2008
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A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia. |
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News :: Human Rights : Labor : Social Welfare |
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The California Nurses Association/NNOC statement about the death of Nataline Sarkisyan |
by California Nurses Association/NNOC
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03 Jan 2008
Modified: 05:25:42 PM |
California nurses group says insurer CIGNA has 'blood on their hands'
The family of a 17-year-old California girl who died after being initially denied payment for a liver transplant is suing the teen's insurance company, an attorney for the family said Friday.
Nataline Sarkisyan, who died Thursday night after her family removed her from life support, had been in a vegetative state for weeks due to complications following a bone marrow transplant. Insurer CIGNA HealthCare had first denied a doctor-recommended liver transplant for Nataline, who suffered from leukemia, but had reversed course yesterday in the face of mounting public pressure.
"CIGNA Health Corporation literally, maliciously killed her...they conciously disregarded her life," family attorney Mike Geragos said of CIGNA. "And they did that for one specific reason: they did not want to pay for her after-care." |
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News :: Labor : Politics : Race : Social Welfare : War and Militarism |
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The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It |
by Steven Argue
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03 Jan 2008
Modified: 05:07:20 PM |
Republican candidate Mitt Romney has declared of Hillary Clinton’s promised health care plan, “It’s a European-style socialized medicine plan, that’s where it leads–and that’s the wrong direction for America” (Shulte).
Yet, unfortunately, Clinton’s plan has nothing in common with socialized medicine, neither of the European variety, nor the Canadian single payer. Her plan is to keep the broken and expensive capitalist system of health care, a system that keeps the insurance industry in charge of life and death questions of whether or not we receive health care when we need it.
In addition, the Clinton plan would make the purchase of health insurance by America’s uninsured mandatory for those who do not get insurance from their employer and who do not qualify for government assistance. Yet, the problem for America’s nearly 50 million uninsured is not that we don’t want to have insurance, the problem is that we can’t afford it. Clinton’s plan of making us criminals for not purchasing health insurance will not resolve this fundamental problem. |
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